Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: I think it is a problem and it explains one of the problems with IDLE.app in 3.x. The value of PYTHONEXECUTABLE should end up in sys.executable:
$ export PYTHONEXECUTABLE='/test' @fimt:~$ python2.6 Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 17 2008, 23:27:50) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin >>> import sys; sys.executable '/test' >>> $ python3.1 Python 3.1a0 (py3k, Feb 2 2009, 02:33:48) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin >>> import sys; sys.executable '/Users/nad/' >>> ---------- nosy: +nad _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5143> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com