Re: Python equivalent of Perl's assignment to $0

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Mon, 11 Jul 94 21:31:35 GMT

In <9407071558.AA19681=guido@voorn.cwi.nl> Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:

>Currently, no. I suppose an interface could be added to sys to set
>the real argv[0]. But is it worth it?

No. In particular since not all UNIX variants display the changed
argv[0] in their ps command (SYSV comes to mind).

-Jaap-

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