[Python-Dev] Generally boared by installation (Re: Setting project home path the best way)

[Eric Snow]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Kristján Valur Jónsson
>> <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Where in the tracker?  I tried searching but didn’t find it.
>>
>>
>> This one: http://bugs.python.org/issue13475
>>
>> This and the issue about being able to configure coverage.py cleanly in
>> subprocesses (http://bugs.python.org/issue14803) are the two issues which
>> have got me thinking about the interpreter startup and configuration process
>> in general lately. Both would add *more* complexity to an already
>> complicated and hard to follow initialisation sequence, so I now think we
>> should be look at opportunities for rationalisation *first*, before we make
>> things even messier.
>
> There's also http://bugs.python.org/issue15716 ("Ability to specify
> the PYTHONPATH via a command line flag").
>
> -eric

I knew there was one more: http://bugs.python.org/issue16499 ("CLI
option for isolated mode").

-eric