[Python-Dev] Improve Python for embedding

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

>> > (not just in Py_Initialize()) by setting the global
>> > Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag to a non-zero value.  I'd reject that part of
>> > the patch for that reason.
>> 
>> I did not know about or notice this flag when I made the changes ---
>> in all the places I looked at the time the environment variables were
>> read without such a check, at least as I remember. It certainly makes
>> more sense to use the built in support.
>
> Perhaps it's easy to overlook that it's using Py_GETENV() rather than
> getenv(); this macro takes tests for Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag first.

Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag and the -E command line option are both
/fairly/ new... 2.2 era?

Cheers,
mwh

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