[Python-checkins] r81964 - in python/trunk: Doc/using/cmdline.rst Misc/NEWS Modules/main.c
nick.coghlan
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Jun 13 08:50:40 CEST 2010
Author: nick.coghlan
Date: Sun Jun 13 08:50:39 2010
New Revision: 81964
Log:
Revert r80580 due to some unintended side effects. See issue #8202 for details.
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
python/trunk/Modules/main.c
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/using/cmdline.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/using/cmdline.rst Sun Jun 13 08:50:39 2010
@@ -95,9 +95,8 @@
file is not available.
If this option is given, the first element of :data:`sys.argv` will be the
- full path to the module file (while the module file is being located, the
- first element will be set to ``"-m"``). As with the :option:`-c` option,
- the current directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`.
+ full path to the module file. As with the :option:`-c` option, the current
+ directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`.
Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution
as a script. An example is the :mod:`timeit` module::
Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Sun Jun 13 08:50:39 2010
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
+ option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
+ See tracker issue for details.
+
- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
(higher than 0x10000).
Modified: python/trunk/Modules/main.c
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Modules/main.c (original)
+++ python/trunk/Modules/main.c Sun Jun 13 08:50:39 2010
@@ -519,10 +519,12 @@
}
if (module != NULL) {
- /* Backup _PyOS_optind and force sys.argv[0] = '-m'
- so that PySys_SetArgv correctly sets sys.path[0] to ''*/
+ /* Backup _PyOS_optind and force sys.argv[0] = '-c'
+ so that PySys_SetArgv correctly sets sys.path[0] to ''
+ rather than looking for a file called "-m". See
+ tracker issue #8202 for details. */
_PyOS_optind--;
- argv[_PyOS_optind] = "-m";
+ argv[_PyOS_optind] = "-c";
}
PySys_SetArgv(argc-_PyOS_optind, argv+_PyOS_optind);
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