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Author chris.jerdonek
Recipients chris.jerdonek, larry, michael.foord
Date 2012-09-28.11:43:15
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(I was just including the line for the convenience of anyone that might happen to come across the issue.  It was not to inform you of course! :) )

FWIW, if you already know from talking to Michael or looking at the code, I think a comment saying why sys.argv[0] is being rewritten in the first place would be useful.  For example, is it strictly to have a nicer-looking usage string for --help, or are there other reasons?

$ ./python.exe -m unittest --help
Usage: python -m unittest [options]
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