Message 316583 - Python tracker

Message316583

Author	carljm
Recipients	barry, brett.cannon, carljm, eric.snow, lukasz.langa, ncoghlan
Date	2018-05-14.21:27:16
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Message-id	<1526333236.23.0.682650639539.issue33499@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Per vstinner Python prefers to not have underscores in environment variable names, for historical reasons. So I'm using `PYTHONBYTECODEPATH` as the env var. Other open questions: 1) Does there need to be a corresponding CLI flag, or is env-var-only sufficient? 2) Is it OK to check the environ every time, or do we need to cache its value in a `sys` flag at startup? Will push an initial version for review that has no CLI flag nor `sys` attribute.

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Per vstinner Python prefers to not have underscores in environment variable names, for historical reasons. So I'm using `PYTHONBYTECODEPATH` as the env var.

Other open questions: 

1) Does there need to be a corresponding CLI flag, or is env-var-only sufficient?

2) Is it OK to check the environ every time, or do we need to cache its value in a `sys` flag at startup?

Will push an initial version for review that has no CLI flag nor `sys` attribute.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-05-14 21:27:16	carljm	set	recipients: + carljm, barry, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, lukasz.langa, eric.snow
2018-05-14 21:27:16	carljm	set	messageid: <1526333236.23.0.682650639539.issue33499@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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