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19 years ago Due to the way input arguments are processed by Py_Main when Python is invoked with the -c switch, PySys_SetArgv treats '-c' as the name of the python executable and tries to get an absolute path for it before adding it to sys.argv.
This is mostly harmless, but is doing work that shouldn't be done: on UNIX it involves calling readlink() and realpath().
The patch avoids the lookup if argv0 is '-c'.
birkenfeld
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title = "python -c readlink()s and stat()s \\'-c\\'"
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```
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