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PCP-PYTHON(1) General Commands Manual PCP-PYTHON(1)

NAME top

   **pcp-python** - run a python script using a preferred python variant

SYNOPSIS top

   **pcp python** [_SCRIPT_ [_ARG_] ...]

DESCRIPTION top

   **pcp-python** has been replaced by [pmpython(1)](../man1/pmpython.1.html) which is preferred,
   however **pcp-python** is still installed to provided backwards
   compatibility.

   **pcp-python** provides a way to run python scripts using a
   customisable python binary, rather than embedding any particular
   version of python into each script.

   This can be useful as it allows version-independent python code to
   be run anywhere.  All python modules shipped with PCP support
   versions 2.6 and later (in the python2 series), and 3.3 and later
   (in the python3 release series).

   Due to python monitoring and collecting scripts being relatively
   simple in PCP (not requiring new modules, language features, etc),
   it has been possible to ensure they work for all of the above
   python versions.  Thus, it is common for PCP python scripts to use
   a "shebang" line that invokes **pcp-python** as follows:

      _#!/usr/bin/pcp python_

   This allows the custom setting to be injected instead of a hard-
   coded python version, while still allowing the user to override
   the python version as follows:

      **$ PCP_PYTHON_PROG=python3 /usr/bin/pcp python --version**
      Python 3.3.2
      **$ PCP_PYTHON_PROG=python2 /usr/bin/pcp python --version**
      Python 2.7.5

   This is convenient for shipping identical scripts on multiple
   platforms, and for testing different python versions with the one
   script (e.g. in the case where multiple versions of python are
   installed, PCP_PYTHON_PROG can be set in the local environment to
   override the global setting).

   By default, the value of PCP_PYTHON_PROG from _/etc/pcp.conf_ will
   be used.  The default value of this configuration parameter is set
   depending on some heuristics about the target build platform.
   These heuristics favour the use of _python3_ in all recent releases
   of PCP, for those platforms that support it.

PCP ENVIRONMENT top

   Environment variables with the prefix **PCP_** are used to
   parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each
   installation, the file _/etc/pcp.conf_ contains the local values for
   these variables.  The **$PCP_CONF** variable may be used to specify an
   alternative configuration file, as described in [pcp.conf(5)](../man5/pcp.conf.5.html).

SEE ALSO top

   [PCPIntro(1)](../man1/PCPIntro.1.html) and [pcp(1)](../man1/pcp.1.html).

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