Document behaviour of python when launched on symlink to a script

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review the issue discussion and linked PR gh-142160 first, then inspect the uploaded main.py example and reproduce how Python behaves when launched through a symlink. Done means documenting the observed behavior in the appropriate CPython documentation location, with the linked PR showing the current work to avoid duplicating it.

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Description

3.11 3.12 3.13 docs easy
BPO 14547
Nosy @ncoghlan, @merwok, @bitdancer
Files
  • main.py: the script is for a Discord bot hosted on heroku
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2012-04-11.14:42:48.600>
labels = ['3.8', 'type-bug', '3.7', 'docs']
title = 'Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly'
updated_at = <Date 2021-06-08.13:11:25.380>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/j13r'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2021-06-08.13:11:25.380>
actor = 'free.abdo.sh'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2012-04-11.14:42:48.600>
creator = 'j13r'
dependencies = []
files = ['50098']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 14547
keywords = []
message_count = 5.0
messages = ['158039', '158057', '158097', '221842', '395328']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['ncoghlan', 'eric.araujo', 'r.david.murray', 'docs@python', 'j13r', 'free.abdo.sh']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue14547'
versions = ['Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']

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