On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mitchell L Model <mlmli...@comcast.net> wrote: > The python man page, dated 2005 even in 3.1, has this curious entry: > > ~/.pythonrc.py > User-specific initialization file loaded by the user module; > not > used by default or by most applications. > > 1. I couldn't figure out what the user module is.
user.py. > 2. I couldn't figure out what "not used by default or by most applications" > meant: what would cause it to get loaded when python starts up? how would an > application load it even if the user's environment didn't cause it to get > loaded? The docstring in user.py explains this. > 3. Why would this file exist if the environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP can > specify a file to be loaded at startup? PYTHONSTARTUP is only used in interactive sessions. > Perhaps this entry in the man page is obsolete and should be removed? Not at all. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
