On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: > What exactly is the disadvantage of a sys attribute? That would seem > preferable to an obscure incarnation like that. Adding sys attributes in maintenance (or security) releases makes me nervous. However, Victor and Christian are right about the need for a special case to avoid leaking information, so my particular suggested check won't work. The most robust check would be to run sys.executable in a subprocess and check if it gives the same hash for a non-empty string as the current process. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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