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ronaldoussoren · ronaldoussoren · commit 82bfcc87f023 · 2010-06-02T03:50:56.000Z
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  r81649 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-06-02 05:47:14 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) | 5 lines

  Fix for issue8868: without this patch 'MacOS.WMAvailable()' will return
  False on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier and scripts won't be able to access GUI
  functionality.
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diff --git a/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c b/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c
@@ -151,6 +151,14 @@ int
 main(int argc, char **argv) {
     char* exec_path = get_python_path();
 
+    /*
+     * Let argv[0] refer to the new interpreter. This is needed to
+     * get the effect we want on OSX 10.5 or earlier. That is, without
+     * changing argv[0] the real interpreter won't have access to
+     * the Window Server.
+     */
+    argv[0] = exec_path;
+
 #ifdef HAVE_SPAWN_H
     /* We're weak-linking to posix-spawnv to ensure that
      * an executable build on 10.5 can work on 10.4.
