Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> added the comment:
The original report, issue1039 has a better problem description:
"In a windows debug build, an assertion is triggered when os.execvpe is
called with an empty argument list:
self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-', [], None)"
The patch, file8338/os.diff is complete with a test and should be easy to apply
to the trunk.
I would be -0 on the change. On one hand, POSIX seems to require a non-empty
argument list, on the other hand at least Linux and MacOS X appear to be happy
with os.execlp('true'). Furthemore, the proposed change will change the
exception from os.execlp('no such program') from OSError to ValueError, which
is not a backward compatible change. As such it is certainly not appropriate
for bug-fix releases.
As far as 3x series are concerned, I think ValueError exception should be
documented.
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