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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 18 19:12:07 EDT 2017

Oleg Broytman wrote:

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?

Maybe python itself should have an -a option, so that

python -a blarg foo.py

would run foo.py with sys.argv[0] == 'blarg'.

-- Greg

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