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

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Oct 18 02:36:13 CEST 2011


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

On 18/10/2011 3:24 AM, PJ Eby 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.

It is worth pointing out that options can be specified directly in the shebang line - eg, a line like "#! /usr/bin/python -S" in a foo.py works as expected.

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