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Re: Retrieving the full command line

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On 24/01/2013 20:01, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 24 January 2013 17:13, Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>> A package-based module run via -m (python -m package.module) works
>> as described (including the implicit __main__ module, my
>> primary use-case).
>
> Does it work in the "python -m package.module" case? It looks to me as
> if the code below will run "python -m package" instead. I think you
> need to split the module name out of sys.argv[0] and put that into the
> command line as well.

Good catch. Unless I am, once again, mistaken, I can't see any way
of recreating a dotted module path which is running as a main module
without the somewhat fragile expedient of walking back up the
filepath and hoping that nothing strange has happened to the imports
on the way down? (pywin32: I'm looking at you!)

And we haven't even touched on zipped archives or other invented
loaders (pulling modules from a database or direct from the internet).

I think, though, that the point which with I started this thread is
still valid: that to reconstruct the command line with which Python
was started, you need an increasingly awkward set of conditions and
checks. As opposed to asking the interpreter: please give me the command
line which started you.

How common that particular requirement actually is, I couldn't say.
But the two cases which clearly could use it are: the reloader
setup we've been discussing here; and the apply-new-version-and-restart
which I'm hoping to use in another setup at work.

Thanks for all the help and input on this, Oscar

TJG

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Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-22 15:07 +0000
  Re: Retrieving the full command line Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-22 23:46 +0000
    Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 00:53 +0000
      Re: Retrieving the full command line Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-23 03:58 +0000
        Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-23 09:58 +0000
        Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 10:01 +0000
          Re: Retrieving the full command line Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-24 04:49 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 16:06 +1100
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 10:06 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 10:56 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 11:04 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 11:30 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 13:45 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 15:28 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 15:51 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 16:08 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 16:53 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 17:13 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 20:01 +0000
            Re: Retrieving the full command line Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-01-24 20:54 +0000

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