At 06:11 PM 5/1/2006 +0100, John Keyes wrote: >On 5/1/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wouldn't this be an incompatible change? That would make it a no-no. > > Providing a dummy argv[0] isn't so hard is it? > >It would be incompatible with existing code, but that code is >already broken (IMO) by passing a dummy argv[0]. I don't >think fixing it would affect much code, because normally >people don't specify the '-q' or '-v' in code, it is almost >exclusively used on the command line.
Speak for yourself - I have at least two tools that would have to change for this, at least one of which would have to grow version testing code, since it's distributed for Python 2.3 and up. That's far more wasteful than providing an argv[0], which is already a common requirement for main program functions in Python. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
