[Python-Dev] Set program name through exec -a or environment variable

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 18 11:27:58 EDT 2017


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

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On Mar 18, 2017 10:11 AM, "Freddy Rietdijk" <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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
>
>
>
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