[Python-Dev] PEP397 no command line options to python? (original) (raw)

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Oct 17 18:24:21 CEST 2011

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Sam Partington <sam.partington at gmail.com>wrote:

Yes it is a bit annoying to have to treat those specially, but other than -c/-m it does not need to understand pythons args, just check that the arg is not an explicit version specifier. -q/-Q etc have no impact on how to treat the file.

In fact there's no real need to treat -c differently as it's extremely unlikely that there is a file that might match. But for -m you can come up with a situation where if you it gets it wrong. e.g. 'module' and 'module.py' in the cwd. I would suggest that it is also unlikely that there will be any future options would need any special consideration.

What about -S (no site.py) and -E (no environment)? These are needed for secure setuid scripts on *nix; I don't know how often they'd be used in practice on Windows. (Basically, they let you isolate a script's effective sys.path; there may be some use case overlap with virtual envs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20111017/051d4bac/attachment.html>

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