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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_sys.py | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/sysmodule.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 72414f6..c2b7423 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -202,8 +202,10 @@ 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]) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py index 6dc0e42..527e762 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py @@ -542,6 +542,9 @@ class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase): self.assertEqual(out, b'?') def test_executable(self): + # sys.executable should be absolute + self.assertEqual(os.path.abspath(sys.executable), sys.executable) + # Issue #7774: Ensure that sys.executable is an empty string if argv[0] # has been set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to # retrieve the real program name @@ -2147,6 +2147,8 @@ C-API Documentation ------------- +- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable. + - Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X. - Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c index d1517d3..955219f 100644 --- a/Python/sysmodule.c +++ b/Python/sysmodule.c @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ Static objects:\n\ builtin_module_names -- tuple of module names built into this interpreter\n\ copyright -- copyright notice pertaining to this interpreter\n\ exec_prefix -- prefix used to find the machine-specific Python library\n\ -executable -- pathname of this Python interpreter\n\ +executable -- absolute path of the executable binary of the Python interpreter\n\ float_info -- a struct sequence with information about the float implementation.\n\ float_repr_style -- string indicating the style of repr() output for floats\n\ hexversion -- version information encoded as a single integer\n\ |