[Python-Dev] Segmentaion fault with wrongly set PYTHONPATH on Windows

[Christian Heimes]

Am 22.10.2012 16:18, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> This is caused by the VMware player installer playing games with $PYTHONHOME
> to try to point it at its own *Python 2* runtime, and trying to call
> lsb_release (a Python 3 script on Ubuntu 12.10) while $PYTHONHOME is pointing
> at the wrong runtime.
> 
> I personally think this is a bug in the VMware player installer script.

I think it's a bug in lsb_release, too. It should use the -E option in
its shebang:

with "#!/usr/bin/python"

$ PYTHONHOME=/invalid /usr/bin/lsb_release
ImportError: No module named site

with "#!/usr/bin/python -E"

$ PYTHONHOME=/invalid /usr/bin/lsb_release
LSB Version:
core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch