On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 14:06:48 -0400 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > Victor brings up a good question in his review of the PEP 553 implementation. > > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3355 > https://bugs.python.org/issue31353 > > The question is whether $PYTHONBREAKPOINT should be ignored if -E is given? > > I think it makes sense for $PYTHONBREAKPOINT to be sensitive to -E, but in > thinking about it some more, it might make better sense for the semantics to > be that when -E is given, we treat it like PYTHONBREAKPOINT=0, i.e. disable > the breakpoint, rather than fallback to the `pdb.set_trace` default.
"""Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.""" People expect -E to disable envvar-driven overrides, so just treat it like that and don't try to second-guess the user. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
