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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2017-11-21.03:48:22
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Message-id	<1511236102.26.0.213398074469.issue32101@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Another argument against PYTHONXOPTIONS is that each implementation is free to decide which -X options it wants to support, and we don't really define what they're supposed to do with options they don't recognise. By contrast, there's an established behaviour for unknown environment variables: implementations that don't support them just ignore them. So +1 for PYTHONDEVMODE=1 from me - that also gives us more flexibility if we decide to add arguments to the option later.

Another argument against PYTHONXOPTIONS is that each implementation is free to decide which -X options it wants to support, and we don't really define what they're supposed to do with options they don't recognise.

By contrast, there's an established behaviour for unknown environment variables: implementations that don't support them just ignore them.

So +1 for PYTHONDEVMODE=1 from me - that also gives us more flexibility if we decide to add arguments to the option later.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-11-21 03:48:22	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner
2017-11-21 03:48:22	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1511236102.26.0.213398074469.issue32101@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2017-11-21 03:48:22	ncoghlan	link	issue32101 messages
2017-11-21 03:48:22	ncoghlan	create