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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-04-25 15:38:31 +0000 |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-04-25 15:38:31 +0000 |
commit | c474deaaf63deb633bf9bc951c8cc1cd5d107eda (patch) | |
tree | 11e4d355d5d8d5a03a14a5df5349546943e1166a /Python/pythonmain.c | |
parent | 4246edda7c055359443ec44a0b862310042d3a1d (diff) | |
download | cpython-git-c474deaaf63deb633bf9bc951c8cc1cd5d107eda.tar.gz |
Expand one level of symbolic link in sys.argv[0] before inserting its
dirname in sys.path. This means that you can create a symbolic link
foo in /usr/local/bin pointing to /usr/yourname/src/foo/foo.py, and
then invoking foo will insert /usr/yourname/src/foo in sys.path, not
/usr/local/bin. This makes it easier to have multifile programs
(before, the program would have to do an os.readlink(sys.argv[0])
itself and insert the resulting directory in sys.path -- Grail does
this).
Note that the expansion is only used for sys.path; sys.argv[0] is
still the original, unadorned filename (/usr/local/bin/foo in the
example).
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