Issue 8378: PYTHONSTARTUP is not run by default when Idle is started (original) (raw)

Created on 2010-04-12 12:49 by jvanpraag, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg102943 - (view)	Author: John Van Praag (jvanpraag)	Date: 2010-04-12 12:49
The PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable does not work--does not import the indicated startup file--when IDLE is started under Windows. I have tested under Windows XP SP2, and under Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. The os.environ variable does list the startup file, but IDLE fails to run it.
msg102952 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2010-04-12 15:15
Believe it or not, this is the documented behavior of Idle on all platforms. You have to specify -s to have PYTHONSTARTUP run. See the last comment in Issue5594, and also the referenced issue 5233, which has a patch that apparently changes this behavior, although that isn't mentioned in that issue itself. I'm making this a feature request for changing the default behavior, to see what people think.
msg220116 - (view)	Author: Mark Lawrence (BreamoreBoy) *	Date: 2014-06-09 20:09
Terry what is your opinion on this?
msg220119 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2014-06-09 21:08
David, thank you for the research on related issues. #5233 explicitly includes this proposal: "The former effect of -s would now be the default,". So I am closing this as a partial duplicate. I will explain here why I reject this.