[Python-Dev] PYTHON3PATH (original) (raw)

Ralf Schmitt ralf at brainbot.com
Wed Jan 13 18:55:31 CET 2010

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

Somehow the bug site doesn't load for me right now, but I'm -1 on this. There are maybe a dozen PYTHON... variables -- we really shouldn't try to add PYTHON3 variants for all of them.

Specifically for PYTHONPATH, I feel that its use is always a short-time or localized hack, not something you set in your .profile nd forget about it (forgetting about it inparticular often leads to unnecessary debugging pain later). The better approaches are based on site-packages, wrapper scripts, virtualenv, etc.

then at least remove them completely from python3, so one can use them for his python 2 installation. Otherwise it will stump on some innocent python 3 program (and cause unnecessary debugging pain).

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