STINNER Victor added the comment:

> Why does this patch execv() the interpreter to set options? I'd expect it to 
> be possible to get the same result by updating the argument parsing code in 
> Py_Main.

It's to set PYTHONMALLOC env var which must be set before Py_Main() is called.

Since I got negative feedback on python-ideas, I close this issue and will 
investigate the documentation option.

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resolution:  -> fixed
status: open -> closed

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