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ASF GitHub Bot commented on BEAM-678:
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GitHub user swegner opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/pull/1006
[BEAM-678] Add BEAM_PYTHON environment override to set the python executable
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commit 046e9b0139ee989d1821036eddb7d0b93a4ae246
Author: Scott Wegner <sweg...@google.com>
Date: 2016-09-26T17:05:01Z
Add BEAM_PYTHON environment override to set the python executable
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> Python executable should be overridable
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> Key: BEAM-678
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-678
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: sdk-py
> Reporter: Scott Wegner
> Assignee: Scott Wegner
> Priority: Minor
>
> Since [PR 962|https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/pull/962],
> dependency.py will use {{sys.executable}} to source the python executable to
> use for managing dependencies. However, as stated in the [python
> docs|https://docs.python.org/2/library/sys.html#sys.executable]:
> bq. If Python is unable to retrieve the real path to its executable,
> sys.executable will be an empty string or None.
> To mitigate this, we should allow setting the python executable to use via an
> environment variable.
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