[ python-Bugs-1705717 ] Error in sys.argv documenation

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Bugs item #1705717, was opened at 2007-04-23 09:31
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kamil Kisiel (kisielk)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Error in sys.argv documenation

Initial Comment:
>From the current version on http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html:

argv

The list of command line arguments passed to a Python script. argv[0] is the script name (it is operating system dependent whether this is a full pathname or not). If the command was executed using the -c command line option to the interpreter, argv[0] is set to the string '-c'. If no script name was passed to the Python interpreter, argv has zero length.


The last line, "If no script name was passed to the Python interpreter, argv has zero length." does not appear to be correct, the length of argv is 1 and argv[0] is '':

kamil at zaphod:~$ python2.5
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec  9 2006, 14:35:53)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> len(sys.argv)
1
>>> sys.argv[0]
''
>>>


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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-04-24 15:10

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Thanks for the report, fixed in rev. 54939, 54940 (2.5).

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