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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2010-04-28 14:51:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2010-04-28 14:51:08 (GMT) |
| commit | c5e448524818df5858e1fe98ce81aeb5ca3a14c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 27b36363e476e8cee3ff8dcb0e73326eb552c4eb /Doc | |
| parent | 54677da895fdb4a58b15cf46cadd0659db6eb3e9 (diff) | |
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Issue 8202: when using the -m command line switch, sys.argv[0] is now '-m' instead of '-c' while searching for the module to be executed
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index a444228..0199f9f 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ source. file is not available. If this option is given, the first element of :data:`sys.argv` will be the - full path to the module file. As with the :option:`-c` option, the current - directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`. + full path to the module file (while the module file is being located, the + first element will be set to ``"-m"``). As with the :option:`-c` option, + the current directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`. Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution as a script. An example is the :mod:`timeit` module:: |