[Patches] [ python-Patches-1576313 ] os.execvp[e] on win32 fails for current directory

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Patches item #1576313, was opened at 2006-10-13 02:57
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Snaury (snaury)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.execvp[e] on win32 fails for current directory

Initial Comment:
By convention when program is executed by searching
path, the first directory to be searched should be the
current directory. However on python this is not true:

1.c:
  int main() { return 1; }

test.py:
  import os
  os.execvp('1', ('1',))

result:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\1\test.py", line 2, in <module>
      os.execvp('1',('1',))
    File "D:\Programs\ActiveState\Python25\lib\os.py",
line 348, in execvp
      _execvpe(file, args)
    File "D:\Programs\ActiveState\Python25\lib\os.py",
line 386, in _execvpe
      func(fullname, *argrest)
  OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Attached patch fixes this.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-10-14 21:51

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What convention are you referring to? By convention, you
have to specify executables in the current directory with
./<program> if you don't have "." in your path.

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