Re: [RFA] ignore PYTHONHOME environment variable.

Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-30T14:37:50Z

On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:54:02 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Therefore I have filed distro-wide (sure to be only FYI for FSF GDB, after/if
> > it gets decided):
> > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/858
>
> Yeah - perhaps it is a bad idea to ignore PYTHONPATH just on our own.

So in the end Python upstream has decided the current behavior (not to do
anything special at the Python-embedded apps side) is right:

http://bugs.python.org/issue14956#msg161959
# No it shouldn't. As mentioned in the Fedora thread you linked, this is no
# different than the user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to something that screws up
# a system installed program.

Regards,
Jan