Archive for November, 2013

Don’t trust python’s os.execv

Python is nice and all, but its low-level functions have real disruptive discrepancies between platforms.

Case at point:

import os
os.execvp("sh", ["sh", "-c", "exit 1"])

As a UNIXy person, I'd expect running the above script to return an error code of 1. And I would be perfectly right... on UNIX systems.

On Windows, it returns 0.

You'd think such a difference in behavior would be documented? It's not.

Thank you python.

2013-11-23 01:24:26+0900

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