when may sys.executable be empty

[Dave Angel]

On 03/11/2015 10:41 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
>  From the documentation of sys.executable:
>
>      A string giving the absolute path of the executable binary for the
> Python interpreter, on systems where this makes sense. If Python is
> unable to retrieve the real path to its executable, sys.executable will
> be an empty string or None.
>
> So on which systems does it not make sense ?
>

Just speculating, but how about when the main executable is not python 
at all, but it uses a DLL or .so file with Python interpreter.


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DaveA