[issue15020] Poor default value for progname in pythonrun.c

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[issue15020] Poor default value for progname

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[issue15020] Poor default value for progname

Joshua Cogliati added the comment: Here is a part of an strace where Python fails to find python3: (This would work if progname=L"python3" ) ... 23249 stat("/opt/python/3.2.2.3/bin/python", 0x7fff2881cbf0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 23249 readlink("/usr/local/bin/python", "/usr/bin

[issue15020] Poor default value for progname

New submission from Joshua Cogliati : In Python/pythonrun.c the following definition exists: static wchar_t *progname = L"python"; This is then used by Py_GetProgramName which is used by calculate_path in Modules/getpath.c Since in python 3, the default executable is python3, and not python,