PyGST messing with sys.argv
While developing play it slowly I noticed some strange behavior of the python gstreamer bindings.
For some reason pygst parses argv on import. This illustrates the problem:
That's not nice of you pygst! But there's a simple workaround:
I guess I should write a patch instead of a post but.. may be later.
[veers@castle ~]$ python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 7 2008, 08:27:41) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys.argv Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named argv >>> import sys >>> sys.argv.append("--help") >>> import gst Usage: . [OPTION...] - GStreamer initialization Help Options: -?, --help Show help options --help-all Show all help options --help-gst Show GStreamer Options
argv = sys.argv sys.argv = [] import gst sys.argv = argv
Jonas Wagner
