On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:04 AM Bolun Thompson <abolunthomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the sys.executable documentation ( > https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.executable), they don't > specify if it follows symlinks. From my limited testing, it does not. Is > this behavior guaranteed?
I don't know about guaranteed, but it's certainly the behaviour I would expect. Recognizing the invocation executable is important to a lot of commands that behave differently based on that, for instance with the detection of a virtual environment. The fact that the executable might be a symlink is irrelevant. If you want to follow symlinks, you can always readlink on it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
