Retrieving the full command line

[Tim Golden]

On 23/01/2013 03:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Currently, if I have a package __main__.py that prints sys.argv, I get 
> results like this:
> 
> steve at runes:~$ python3.3 /home/steve/python/testpackage/__main__.py ham 
> spam eggs
> ['/home/steve/python/testpackage/__main__.py', 'ham', 'spam', 'eggs']
> 
> 
> which is correct, that's what I gave on the command line. But:
> 
> steve at runes:~$ python3.3 -m testpackage ham spam eggs
> ['/home/steve/python/testpackage/__main__.py', 'ham', 'spam', 'eggs']
> 
> 
> The second example is lying. It should say:
> 
> ['-m testpackage', 'ham', 'spam', 'eggs']

Thanks for the input, Steven & Oscar.

Apologies for the confusion over my initial example. Of course, -m runs
something on sys.path, not something in the filesystem as such. I
confused myself because, running on Windows where the current directory
is on the path, I sit in c:\path\to and do python -mapp

Now I look harder, this discussion is basically issue14208:

  http://bugs.python.org/issue14208

so I'll probably go and contribute over there.

TJG