Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>>Is there a way to set the program name in Python, similar to $0 in >>>Perl? >>> >>>>From `man perlvar`: >>> >>>$0 Contains the name of the program being executed. On some oper- >>> ating systems assigning to "$0" modifies the argument >>>area that >>> the ps program sees. This is more useful as a way of >>>indicat- >>> ing the current program state than it is for hiding the >>>program >>> you're running. (Mnemonic: same as sh and ksh.) > > >>import sys >>print sys.argv[0] > > > that *gets* the name, but assigning to sys.argv[0] doesn't *set* it (afaik). > > setting the name involves overwriting the C level argv array, several large > buckets of worms, and huge portability issues, and is thus better left to non- > standard extensions. > Indeed. My bad.
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