[Python-Dev] Improve Python for embedding (original) (raw)

Tom Emerson tree at basistech.com
Mon Dec 22 18:49:37 EST 2003


Guido van Rossum writes:

> > Perhaps it's easy to overlook that it's using PyGETENV() rather than > > getenv(); this macro takes tests for PyIgnoreEnvironmentFlag first. > > PyIgnoreEnvironmentFlag and the -E command line option are both > /fairly/ new... 2.2 era?

Yeah, but the patch he suggested was using PyGETENV(), so it's not like it didn't exist when they did the patch; they must have missed its significance. :-)

Yes, they did miss the significance of the use of the macro.

-- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Software Architect http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"



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