[Idle-dev] Re: idlefork merge underway - errata

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > Concatenating os.sep is not OS dependent.  On the Mac, os.sep is ':'
                                  ^^
                                  independent

 > On Unix, sys.path[0] is not the right place to look into.  It might be
 > just "idle" when the "idle" script is found on $PATH and the user
 > typed "idle".  (Most shells sustitute the full pathname found, but not
 > all do.)

  Also, someone calling os.exec*() directly can put just about
anything in there, since the path to the executable is a separate
parameter from the argv list.


  -Fred

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