[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/lib/python/DateTime/tests -testDateTime.py:1.12.6.3

Andreas Jung andreas@andreas-jung.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:42:59 +0200


Is there a reason why __file__ can not be set automatically by
Python ?

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 11:34 -0400 "Fred L. Drake, Jr." 
<fdrake@acm.org> wrote:

>
> Guido van Rossum writes:
>  > Correct.  In that case, sys.argv[0] will usually work, though that's
>  > up to the shell, and there are cases where you won't be able to
>  > recover the true directory (e.g. when the shell's PATH is different
>  > from what is exported into os.environ).
>
> All the more reason to always set __file__!
>
>
>   -Fred
>
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> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
>
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