[Pythonmac-SIG] bundlebuilder --standalone not working

[Bob Swerdlow]

Thanks, Jack - I didn't know about sys.executable - it's not in Python in a
Nutshell (for Python 2.2).  Is this new in 2.3?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Jansen" <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>
To: "Bob Swerdlow" <rswerdlow at transpose.com>
Cc: <pythonmac-sig at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bundlebuilder --standalone not working


>
> On 24-sep-03, at 16:23, Bob Swerdlow wrote:
>
> > I finally figured this out.
> >
> > Our application launches background scripts using Popen2, and we were
> > just
> > specifying "python" as the command, passing it the script name from our
> > bundle.  Of course, this would cause the default python to run rather
> > than
> > the one in our standalone package.  By specifying the full path in the
> > command, it finds a compatible python and these problems are avoided.
>
> This is what Python has sys.executable for: it is the path to the
> current
> interpreter. And the bundlebuilder design has gone through quite some
> pains to make sure it actually points to a valid interpreter...
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma
> Goldman
>
>