Shouldn't running process name show "youtube-dl", not "python"

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More of a question, really.
In Linux System Monitor, or in NetStat output, the Youtube-dl running process name shows as "python", beside the PID and / or port number that YT-dl is using.

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:40222 127.0.0.1:9150 ESTABLISHED 1000 320748 22379/python

Shouldn't it show the actual application name? I've never seen other application's running process name shown as 'C++' or 'Perl.'

If trying to verify which port YT-dl is using, or using a proxy correctly, etc., not showing the real process name makes it difficult to identify the correct process.

In Linux, there are many running processes with 'python' or 'py' - as part of the name.

Thanks.

[yan12125]

It should have been done in youtube_dl.utils.setproctitle(), but it's now partially broken due to unknown reasons. Only thread names are changed, so you need ps -eL or ps -eT to see it.

[yan12125]

Hmmm seems it's impossible with pure Python. There was a patch to Python but rejected: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-August/073640.html.
If CPython eventually adds this function, we can reopen this ticket.