something not working with python -m

[dvarrazzo]

Originally submitted by daniele.varrazzo as issue 8:

Reported by Raymond Rizzuto. Confirmed on Ubuntu with Python 2.6.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

$ cat test.py
import setproctitle
print setproctitle.getproctitle()
$ python -m test

What is the expected output?

python -m test

What do you see instead?

python -

the process title in /proc/PID/cmdline reads as "python -\x00\x00test\x00"

The result is not fixed after using setproctitle():

$ cat test2.py
import setproctitle
setproctitle.setproctitle('012345678901234')
print "proctitle", setproctitle.getproctitle()
print "cmdline", repr(open("/proc/self/cmdline").read())

$ python -t test2.py # this works
proctitle 012345678901234
cmdline '012345678901234\x00\x00\x00\x00'

$ python -m test2 # this not
proctitle 01234567
cmdline '01234567\x00\x00test2\x00'

[dvarrazzo]

Comment by daniele.varrazzo:

This issue was closed by revision 6f1d91bdbe.