[Twisted-Python] A useful value for argv[0]

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Sun Feb 16 18:12:28 MST 2003


>>> Christopher Armstrong wrote
> Nope. I think there was a patch for Python to allow it to be mutable,
> but nobody wanted to allow a change to main(), or something.

More accurately, no-one was willing to take on the platform-dependency
hell that it would cause. argv[0] setting works quite differently across
all sorts of different platforms.


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