At 10:09 AM 7/12/2007 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >"" should not be removed from sys.path. It is *not* meant to be >the current directory, but the directory where the main script >lives.
Right; it should be replaced with the zipfile path instead. I would personally rather see this option defined as simply placing a directory at the front of sys.path, and perhaps defining a default -m value of __main__, unless overrridden. Being able to use the option more than once would be nice, too. On Windows, you can't set an environment variable on the same line as a command, so this would give you a one-liner way of setting sys.path and running an application. I do not see a reason to make this option zipfile-specific in any way, though; it's just as useful (and sometimes more so) to be able to distribute an application as a directory, since that lets you use .pyd, .so, .dll etc. without needing the egg cache system for using those. >Why that? Why do eggs fail to process $0 correctly, whereas the >-z option gets it correct? That just sounds like a bug in eggs >to me, that could be fixed - or, if not, I'd expect that -z >cannot fix it, either. > >My understanding of this note is that >pkg_resources uses sys.argv[0] to determine the version number >of the egg; IIUC, -z won't help at all here because sys.argv[0] >will still be the name of the symlink. That's correct; it will not help. A change in the zipped .egg format is required, but could be done. If the option is added (again, without being zipfile-specific!) then there is a reason for me to make the change. _______________________________________________ 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
