[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

STINNER Victor added the comment: See also bpo-20443 "__code__. co_filename should always be an absolute path". I had a revert a change which affected sys.argv[0]: commit a1a99b4bb7cbe2dbc55a1d92c3c509b4466d3c3b Author: Victor Stinner Date: Mon Dec 9 17:34:02 2019 +0100 bpo-20443: No

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

Ned Deily added the comment: > I'm not against making Python even better: attempt to normalize the path ;-) I would be very cautious about doing that. I'm pretty sure it would break some existing code. -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

STINNER Victor added the comment: > The path is not required to be normalized. I'm talking about the current implementation. I'm not against making Python even better: attempt to normalize the path ;-) -- ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor added the comment: test_sys: def test_executable(self): # sys.executable should be absolute self.assertEqual(os.path.abspath(sys.executable), sys.executable) IMO the test is wrong. It must test: test.assertTrue(os.path.isabs(sys.executable)). The path is n

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

Irit Katriel added the comment: This is still unresolved: iritkatriel@Irits-MBP Lib % pwd /Users/iritkatriel/src/cpython-1/Lib iritkatriel@Irits-MBP Lib % ../python.exe -m test -v test_sys [snipped] == FAIL: test_executable

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: Éric Araujo wrote: > I wonder if the doc for sys.executable should mention that .. > segments may be present. Once this is fixed, it should say that .. segments may be present if there's realpath() is not available. --

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Éric Araujo added the comment: I wonder if the doc for sys.executable should mention that .. segments may be present. -- nosy: +eric.araujo, petri.lehtinen ___ Python tracker _

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STINNER Victor added the comment: >> Is it a bug in ntpath? > Probably Ok, I opened the issue #14094. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Ah? ntpath.realpath() uses nt._getfullpathname(). Is it a bug in ntpath? Probably: # realpath is a no-op on systems without islink support realpath = abspath -- ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor added the comment: > GetFullPathName() is an abspath() equivalent. For realpath() you > want GetFinalPathNameByHandle(), aka. _nt.getfinalpathname(). Ah? ntpath.realpath() uses nt._getfullpathname(). Is it a bug in ntpath? -- ___ Pyth

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > We can use realpath() if the function is available. Something similar > is already done for sys.argv[0]. We should also use GetFullPathNameW() > on Windows. GetFullPathName() is an abspath() equivalent. For realpath() you want GetFinalPathNameByHandle(), aka.

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

STINNER Victor added the comment: See also the issue #13402. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

STINNER Victor added the comment: We can use realpath() if the function is available. Something similar is already done for sys.argv[0]. We should also use GetFullPathNameW() on Windows. -- nosy: +haypo Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24607/sys_executable_realpath.patch ___

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is unfortunately wrong since it will fail in the face of symlinks. (if "foo" is a symlink to another directory, then "foo/../bar" is not the same thing as "bar") -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker

[issue14088] sys.executable generating canonical path

New submission from Antonio Ribeiro : Hi all, As it is my first time here, I'll try to explay step-by-step why I'm providing this path, and why I think that it is changing something that I believe that is not correct. First of all, I was trying to run one individual test, as the dev guide say