Sept. 14, 2012
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> wrote:
... issue13475 ... Why is the proposal --path0 and not --path? (The only utility I know with a command line option spelled as "foo0" is find, where -print0 means "like -print, but append \0 instead of \n".)
It's meant to allow you to explicitly manage the sys.path[0] value that gets set implicitly. That it fits Daniel's use case (as I understand it) is not coincidental, but it's not meant as a wholesale substitute for PYTHONPATH. That would be a separate proposal (which I believe exists in the tracker already). -eric