Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Environment variables are hidden state. It makes them rather dangerous from a security POV (even more so than a root-modifiable configuration file, since it is less well-defined who can set an environment variable that will be inherited by some process).
As long as the solution that is decided on isn't part of vanilla Python, I care a bit less, of course :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23857> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
