Status: Accepted
Owner: pekka.klarck
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Target-2.7 bwic
New issue 1034 by pekka.klarck: Do not process PYTHONPATH when using Jython
or IronPython
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1034
In RF 2.6 and earlier we process PYTHONPATH environment variable and always
add items in it into Python's sys.path. This is done also when running
tests on Jython or IronPython although these interpreters don't use
PYTHONPATH otherwise but have JYTHONPATH and IRONPYTHONPATH instead.
The original motivation for always processing PYTHONPATH was that Jython
2.2 didn't support JYTHONPATH. With Jython 2.5 and newer that's not a
problem so this legacy functionality can be removed.
The change is backwards incompatible because if someone is used PYTHONPATH
with Jython or IronPython that is not going to work anymore. That should
not cause too big problems for users because fixing the problem is so
easy--you just need to use JYTHONPATH or IRONPYTHONPATH instead or in
addition to PYTHONPATH. An alternative solution is using Robot's
`--pythonpath (-P)` command line option.
