The original command python line

[Chris Rebert]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I get the *really* original command line that started my python
> interpreter?
>
> Werkzeug has a WSGI server which reloads itself when files are changed
> on disk. It uses `args = [sys.executable] + sys.argv` to kind of
> recreate the command line, and the uses subprocess.call to run that
> command line.
>
> BUT that's problematic as, when you run::
>
>        python -m mypackage --config
>
> sys.argv printed in mypackage/__main__.py will be::
>
>        ['/full/path/to/mypackage/__main__.py', '--config']
>
> so you get::
>
>        python /full/path/to/mypackage/__main__.py --config
>
> instead of::
>
>        python -m mypackage --config
>
>
> the difference in the 2 cases is what the current package is, and
> whether you can use relative imports.

On Linux, you can read from:
    /proc/<PID here>/cmdline
to get the null-delimited "command line".

Sidenote: Consensus generally seems to be that relative imports are a bad idea.

Cheers,
Chris