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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:39 AM, nick.coghlan <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

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The \`\`-E\`\` command line option allows all environment variables to be
\-ignored when initialising the Python interpreter. An embedding application
+ignored when initializing the Python interpreter. An embedding application
can enable this behaviour by setting \`\`Py\_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag\`\` before
calling \`\`Py\_Initialize()\`\`.

In the CPython source code, the \`\`Py\_GETENV\`\` macro implicitly checks this
flag, and always produces \`\`NULL\`\` if it is set.

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