On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:22:03PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 18, 2015, at 03:46 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > >We're starting a discussion in Fedora about setting the default shbang for > >system python executables and/or daemons to python -s or python -Es (or ?). > > We've talked about this in Debian/Ubuntu land and the general consensus is > that for Python 2, use -Es and for Python 3 use -I (which implies -Es). I'm > not sure we're consistent yet in making sure our build tools install these > switches in our shebangs, but I'm hoping after Jessie we can make some > progress on that. > Interesting, I've cautiously in favor of -s in Fedora but the more I've thought about it the less I've liked -E. It just seems like PYTHONPATH is analagous to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for C programs and PATH for shell scripting. We leave both of those for local admins and users to affect the behaviour of programs if they needed to.
Was there some discussion of -E specifically in Debian where it was consciously decided that PYTHONPATH was not analagous or that the benefit risk was different than for those other env vars? -Toshio
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