On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>wrote:
Am 09.11.2012 09:19, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg:
Sounds like a good idea. I'd be interested in this, because it would make debugging user installation problems easier.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the option character "-I". It reminds me too much of the -I typically used for include paths in C compilers :-)
I'm open to suggestions for a better name and character. Michael also pointed out that capital i (india) can look like a lower case l (lima). -R is still unused. I hesitate to call it restricted mode because it can be confused with PyPy's restricted Python.
Why does it have to be a single letter? Many tools today demand fully spelled out command-line flags for readability, and this also helps avoid clashes and cryptic flags no one remembers anyway. So if you want isolate mode, what's wrong with "--isolated" ? Eli