This is not directly what the OP wanted in regards to Perl, but to see
what one could do if one needed to change the name of the running
program, I wrote this:
## START PROGRAM
import sys
import os.path
import shutil
import os
def testChangingName(appname):
hopedfornameis = appname
mylongnameis = sys.argv[0]
mynameis = os.path.basename(mylongnameis)
basenameis = os.path.dirname(mylongnameis)
if mynameis != hopedfornameis:
shutil.copyfile(mynameis, basenameis+"/"+hopedfornameis)
os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT,"c:/python23/python.exe",('c:/python23/python.exe',hopedfornameis))
sys.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
print sys.argv[0]
testChangingName("testNameIsChanged.py")
s=raw_input("All's well!")
s=raw_input("Now do something useful")
## END PROGRAM
Since I don't know the circumstance in which the OP wanted to change
the name, I really don't know what caveats one should look out for
here.
I would be curious to know when such a function could come in handy.
Jean-Marc
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