[Python-Dev] PEP397 no command line options to python?

[PJ Eby]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Sam Partington <sam.partington at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes it is a bit annoying to have to treat those specially, but other
> than -c/-m it does not need to understand pythons args, just check
> that the arg is not an explicit version specifier.  -q/-Q etc have no
> impact on how to treat the file.
>
> In fact there's no real need to treat -c differently as it's extremely
> unlikely that there is a file that might match. But for -m you can
> come up with a situation where if you it gets it wrong. e.g. 'module'
> and 'module.py' in the cwd.
>
> I would suggest that it is also unlikely that there will be any future
> options would need any special consideration.
>

What about -S (no site.py) and -E (no environment)?  These are needed for
secure setuid scripts on *nix; I don't know how often they'd be used in
practice on Windows.  (Basically, they let you isolate a script's effective
sys.path; there may be some use case overlap with virtual envs.
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