[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-471834 ] Nomenclature in os module, exec*()

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Bugs item #471834, was opened at 2001-10-16 12:40
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Nomenclature in os module, exec*()

Initial Comment:
Both Stevens and the Linux manpages make a small but
important distinction in the first argument to execvp()
and execlp() verses the other exec*() functions.  The
`p' version takes a file name, which is used in a $PATH
search if the argument does not contain a slash.  The
others take a path argument for which $PATH is not
searched.

The documentation for execvp() and execlp() in the os
module should mimic this nomenclature.  I.e. `file' for
execvp(), execlp() -- and for good measure, our own
hybrid execvpe().  It should be `path' for execl(),
execv(), execle(), and execve().

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