Merged revisions 78835-78837,78870 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78835 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-11 13:34:39 +0100 (jeu., 11 mars 2010) | 7 lines Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been 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. ........ r78836 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-11 14:27:35 +0100 (jeu., 11 mars 2010) | 4 lines Fix test_executable introduce in previous commit (r78835): Windows is able to retrieve the absolute Python path even if argv[0] has been set to a non existent program name. ........ r78837 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-11 14:46:06 +0100 (jeu., 11 mars 2010) | 3 lines Another fix to test_executable() of test_sys: set the current working to avoid the #7774 bug. ........ r78870 | victor.stinner | 2010-03-12 15:30:26 +0100 (ven., 12 mars 2010) | 1 line NEWS: issue #7774 is related to Library (sys), not Core and Builtins ........

--- a/Modules/getpath.c	Sun Mar 21 13:41:15 2010 +0000
+++ b/Modules/getpath.c	Sun Mar 21 13:47:28 2010 +0000
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
 	}
 	else
 		progpath[0] = '\0';
-	if (progpath[0] != SEP)
+	if (progpath[0] != SEP && progpath[0] != '\0')
 		absolutize(progpath);
 	strncpy(argv0_path, progpath, MAXPATHLEN);
 	argv0_path[MAXPATHLEN] = '\0';