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authorPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2012-02-02 19:11:28 (GMT)
committerPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2012-02-02 19:26:05 (GMT)
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Document absoluteness of sys.executable
Closes #13402.
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@@ -215,8 +215,10 @@ always available.
.. data:: executable
- A string giving the name of the executable binary for the Python interpreter, on
- systems where this makes sense.
+ 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, :data:`sys.executable` will be an empty string
+ or ``None``.
.. function:: exit([arg])