program path

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Peter Hansen:
  [...]
> scriptPath = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])

On machines where sys.argv[0] isn't the absolute path already,
might it not be the name-as-invoked, and thus ought to be resolved
by scanning the $PATH (or equivalent) rather than as relative to
the current directory?

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Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
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