[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

[Antonio Ribeiro]

New submission from Antonio Ribeiro <alvesjunior.antonio at gmail.com>:

Hi all,

As it is my first time here, I'll try to explay step-by-step why I'm providing this path, and why I think that it is changing something that I believe that is not correct.

First of all, I was trying to run one individual test, as the dev guide says:

./python -m test -v test_sys

but, instead of run this test from the root directory of the project, I run it from ./Lib/test, so I did:

../../python -m test -v test_sys

and it returned an error. The reason is that my sys.executable was not an abspath. When I went to see why it is different, I get this value to sys.executable:

sys.executable -> '/home/antonio/Projects/cpython/Lib/test/../../python'

I'm not sure if I'm thinking write, but for me don't look nice to have this value as sys.executable, once the real path should be:

'/home/antonio/Projects/cpython/python'

So I'm providing a paatch that do exactly this.

Hope you enjoy

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components: None
files: canonical_path.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 153970
nosy: alvesjnr
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sys.executable generating canonical path
type: behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24604/canonical_path.diff

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