On Mar 18, 2015, at 02:44 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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.
It is, and it isn't. It's different because you can always explicitly override the shebang line if needed. So if a local admin really needed to override $PYTHONPATH (though I can't come up with a use case right now), they could just: $ python3 -s /usr/bin/foo
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?
I'd have to go digging around the archives. It wasn't a recent discussion IIRC. Cheers, -Barry