[Python-ideas] Why is there no way to pass PYTHONPATH on the command line?

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 00:48:15 CEST 2012


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is there no way to pass PYTHONPATH on the command line? Oversight
> or intentional?
>
> Given path_item/something.py
>
> python -p path_item -c "import something; something.foo()"

Do you mean something along the lines of
http://bugs.python.org/issue13475?  This would add --path0 and
--nopath0 as commandline options.  Of course, this would only be in
Python 3.4 (if it makes it in at all).

-eric



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