[Python-Dev] The -U flag (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:20:05 -0400

Maybe MAL remembers after seeing this checkin comment to Modules/main.c:

---------------------------- revision 1.63 date: 2002/02/11 18:46:47; author: lemburg; state: Exp; lines: +0 -1 Remove mentioning of -U option in "python -h" output. ----------------------------

MAL did that after I whined a lot: so long as -U was mentioned in the -h blurb, users kept trying to use it -- that it didn't work, and spectacularly so, gave them a wrong impression about Python, and wasted time on various mailing lists explaining over & over that it wasn't "supposed to" work.