[Python-Dev] is this a bug? no environment variables

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Tue Nov 23 19:58:37 CET 2010


On 11/22/2010 2:56 PM, Tim Lesher wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 16:54, Glenn Linderman<v+python at g.nevcal.com>  wrote:
>> I suppose it is possible that some environment variables are used by Python
>> directly (but I can't seem to find a documented list of them) although I
>> would expect that usage to be optional, with fall-back defaults when they
>> don't exist.
> I can verify that that's the case: Python (at least through 3.1.2)
> runs fine on Windows platforms when environment variables are
> completely unavailable.  I know that from running our port for Windows
> CE (which has no environment variables at all), cross-compiled for
> Windows XP.

Is the Windows CE port generally available?  From where?  The CE ports I 
have found in past searches seem to have been quite outdated and not 
much on-going activity.
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