New submission from Ned Deily <n...@python.org>:
The PYTHONEXECUTABLE is a holdover from old Python 2 days; AFAIK, it was specifically to support the Build Applet tool which could be used to build macOS app bundles in Python 2. The only place in current Py3 releases where it is used is in the standard library is in the launch of IDLE.app, a usage that should be able to be eliminated. Otherwise, there shouldn't be any need for it by third-parties. For 3.11, we could eliminate its use by IDLE.app and add a deprecation warning to the docs; not sure about an execution time warning? https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONEXECUTABLE ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, macOS messages: 414382 nosy: docs@python, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, steve.dower priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Deprecate and eventually remove macOS-only PYTHONEXECUTABLE environ variable versions: Python 3.11 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46901> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
