Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:57 AM, sstein...@gmail.com > Or, how about > just removing the antiquated use of environment variables altogether > from Python 3 and avoid the issue completely. > > -1. They have their use, but more in controlled situations. If you > have "global" env vars that you only want to use with Python 2.x, > write a wrapper for Python 3 that invokes it with -E.
Perhaps a case can be made for Python 3 to assume -E by default, with a -e option to enable reading of the environment variables? That way naive users could run Python3 without tripping over existing Python2 environment variables, while other tools could readily set up a different environment before launching Python3. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
