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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Aaron.Meurer, docs@python, r.david.murray
Date 2014-03-18.18:01:59
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You missed the part where it says "no matter where it is called from".  That is, the path is stripped off.  The sentence could be changed to emphasize that ("the :ref:`~os.basename` of sys.argv[0]").

The backslash is indeed a bit odd and probably should be changed.
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