New submission from Mike Kaplinskiy: For the purposes of pex (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex), it would be useful to allow calling run_module without sys.argv[0] changing. In general, this behavior is useful if the script intends to re-exec itself (so it needs to know the original arguments that it was started with).
To make run_module more useful in general, I propose adding a `argv` parameter that has the following semantics: - (default) If set to a special value runpy.INHERIT (similar to subprocess.STDOUT), produces the current behavior of just changing sys.argv[0]. - If set to None, does not touch sys.argv at all. - If set to an iterable, executes `sys.argv = [module.__file__] + list(argv)`, and properly reverts it once the module is done executing. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 260483 nosy: Mike Kaplinskiy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Disabling changing sys.argv[0] with runpy.run_module(...alter_sys=True) type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26388> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
