[issue6501] Fatal error on startup with invalid PYTHONIOENCODING

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Currently different environment variables are treated differently.  For example,
> mistakes in PYTHONHOME and PYTHONIOENCODING cause fatal error while an error in
> PYTHONSTARTUP is reported but does not terminate python:

If PYTHONSTARTUP is the only envvar with non-fatal errors, I think it’s okay.  PYTHONHOME contains vital information, PYTHONIOENCODING is set by the programmer/admin and their code probably depends on it, but PYTHONSTARTUP is just niceties for the interactive interpreter, so non-vital IMO.

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nosy: +eric.araujo
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3 -Python 3.1

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