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

Sam Partington sam.partington at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 23:52:06 CEST 2011

On 17 October 2011 17:24, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

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.

At the moment py -S test.py would mean that test.py would not be scanned for a shebang, and would be executed with the latest python. The change that I am suggesting would mean that it would be scanned for a shebang to select the python, and then that python would be called with -S.

Do you think it would be necessary to have -S disable reading of the .ini files (in the users application data dir and in \windows)?

Sam

PS Sorry, I initially replied off-list by accident.

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