[Python-Dev] Set program name through exec -a or environment variable (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Sat Mar 18 11:43:47 EDT 2017

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:27:58AM -0500, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

exec -a would seem to end up setting argv[0] on the CPython interpreter itself, which I don't think is the desired effect...

That's exactly what OP asked -- how to change that?

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On Mar 18, 2017 10:11 AM, "Freddy Rietdijk" <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl> wrote: > I would like to know if you're open to supporting exec -a or an > environment variable for setting argv[0], and have some pointers as to > where that should be implemented. > > On Nixpkgs we typically use wrappers to set environment variables like > PATH or PYTHONPATH for individual programs. Consider a program named > prog. We move the original program prog to .prog-wrapped and then > create a wrapper prog that does exec -a prog .prog-wrapped. > > Unfortunately exec -a does not work with Python. The process is still > named .prog-wrapped (although that's not really a problem) but worse, > sys.argv[0] is also .prog-wrapped. Currently we inject some code in > programs that sets `sys.argv=[0] = "prog" but this is fragile and I would > prefer to get rid of this. > > Kind regards, > > Frederik

Oleg.

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