In article <slrnavhbcp.8dm.rmunn at rmunnlfs.dyndns.org>, Robin Munn wrote:
> *Boggle*. Do you mean that tcsh and ksh, if "myscript.py" is
> found in $PATH, simply pass "myscript.py" as argv[0] instead of
> passing "/home/myusername/bin/myscript.py"?
Yes.
> Then how am I supposed to, say, check for a config file in my
> script's directory?
You're not. That's considered bad behavior.
> Or find the data file locations based on my script's location?
You're not supposed to. That's also considered bad behavior.
>>> Python does what it should with argv, copies it directly into sys.argv.
>>
>> Definitely agreed.
Remember: the contents of argv[0] are dependent _entirely_ on
the whim of the calling program. You can _not_ assume it
contains anything useful.
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