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r83096 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-07-23 17:05:35 +0100 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 13 lines
Ensure that sys.prefix can reliably be found
on OSX. This fixes a small issue that was exposed
by running test_subprocess through regrtest (and
hence in a subdirectory).
Without this patch running python.exe from the
build tree will fail when these tree conditions
are true:
1) the CWD is not the root of build tree
2) python.exe is found through $PATH
3) the framework is not yet installed
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set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name.
Fix also sysconfig: if sys.executable is an empty string, use the current
working directory.
That's the title of the report, but the hole was probably plugged since
Python 2.0. See corresponding checkin to PC/getpathp.c: a crucial
precondition for joinpath() was neither documented nor verified, and there
are so many callers with so many conditional paths that no "eyeball
analysis" is satisfactory. Now Python dies with a fatal error if the
precondition isn't satisfied, instead of allowing a buffer overrun.
NOT TESTED! The Windows version of the patch was, but not this one. I
don't feel like waiting for someone to notice the patch I attached to the
bug report. If it doesn't compile, sorry, but fix it <wink>. If it
does compile, it's "obviously correct".
#!-scripts, only the filename part, and this can lead to incorrect
initialization of sys.path and sys.executable if there is another python
on $PATH before the one used in #!.
The fix was picked up from the darwinports crowd, thanks!
- new import hooks in import.c, exposed in the sys module
- new module called 'zipimport'
- various changes to allow bootstrapping from zip files
I hope I didn't break the Windows build (or anything else for that
matter), but then again, it's been sitting on sf long enough...
Regarding the latest discussions on python-dev: zipimport sets
pkg.__path__ as specified in PEP 273, and likewise, sys.path item such as
/path/to/Archive.zip/subdir/ are supported again.
