[issue41615] sys.argv may be None or an empty list

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

Got it.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 15:28 Terry J. Reedy <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:
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> sys.argv cannot be set until sys exists.  As I mentioned above, subsequent
> calls before finalization must continue to be no-ops.
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> Code that depends on a bug, in this case of sys.argv not existing, is
> always vulnerable.  In this case, I would expect that people who want
> sys.argv to have a particular value would unconditionally set it.  If it
> were conditionally set, the program would likely exit or otherwise fail a
> test.  I intentionally have not suggested backporting a code change.
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