From: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 19:52:15 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Issue #16115: Add test for check that executable arg to Popen() takes precedence... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a1~2356^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a53c0cbf5ee97f109875ad95bdb6530b7b3022f;p=python

Issue #16115: Add test for check that executable arg to Popen() takes precedence over args[0] arg\n                            \n                            Patch by Kushal Das
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 476d22981a..6fc61088b8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -299,6 +299,16 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         # argument.  For test runs in the build directory, see #7774.
         self._assert_cwd('', "somethingyoudonthave", executable=sys.executable)
 
+    def test_executable_precedence(self):
+        # To the precedence of executable argument over args[0]
+        # For a normal installation, it should work without 'cwd'
+        # argument. For test runs in the build directory, see #7774.
+        python_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable))
+        p = subprocess.Popen(["nonexistent","-c",'import sys; sys.exit(42)'],
+                            executable=sys.executable, cwd=python_dir)
+        p.wait()
+        self.assertEqual(p.returncode, 42)
+
     def test_stdin_pipe(self):
         # stdin redirection
         p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",