Issue #16115: Add test for check that executable arg to Popen() takes precedence over args[0] arg\n \n Patch by Kushal Das
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 476d229..6fc6108 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -299,6 +299,16 @@
# 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",