On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Mike Graham wrote:

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

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Why is there no way to pass PYTHONPATH on the command line? Oversight or intentional?

Given path_item/something.py

python -p path_item -c "import something; something.foo()"

I am aware that the __main__.py behavior lessens the need for this significantly.

PYTHONPATH=whatever python -c "import something; something.foo()"

Mike

Yes, I've heard of that one. Does it work on Windows too?

On 15 September 2012 08:40, Paul Moore wrote:

On 14 September 2012 23:11, Daniel Holth wrote:

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Mike Graham wrote:

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PYTHONPATH=whatever python -c "import something; something.foo()"

Mike

Yes, I've heard of that one. Does it work on Windows too?

No. Sadly.

Unless you're using either cygwin or (my preference) msys < http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS>. Tim Delaney

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Eric Snow wrote:

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

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Why is there no way to pass PYTHONPATH on the command line? Oversight or intentional?

Given path_item/something.py

python -p path_item -c "import something; something.foo()"

Do you mean something along the lines of http://bugs.python.org/issue13475? This would add --path0 and --nopath0 as commandline options. Of course, this would only be in Python 3.4 (if it makes it in at all).

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".) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

Surely it should be the same as python path, at the front, and use - E to ignore the environment On Sep 14, 2012 7:17 PM, "Eric Snow" wrote:

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Eric Snow wrote:

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... 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