[Python-Dev] PEP 371 Discussion (pyProcessing Module)

[Jesse Noller]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:31 PM, r.m.oudkerk <r.m.oudkerk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 31/05/2008, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/5/30 Farshid Lashkari <flashk at gmail.com>:
>>> I'm not sure if there will be any side affects to modifying
>>> sys.executable though. Should this be the official way of supporting
>>> embedded interpreters or should there be a
>>> multiprocessing.setExecutable() method?
>>
>> +1 for setExecutable (I'd prefer set_executable, to be PEP 8
>> compliant). Make it explicit, rather than fiddling with stuff in sys
>> manually.
>
> That is easy to do.

Also note - someone just pointed out to me that the executable
manipulation as-is breaks when you execute things within IDLE.

I'll add all of this to the PEP.

-jesse