[New-bugs-announce] [issue2375] PYTHON3PATH environment variable to supersede PYTHONPATH for multi-Python environments

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

New submission from Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at divmod.com>:

Currently if you have both Python 3 and Python 2 installed, there's no
way to indicate that ".py" files in one area are Python 2 syntax and in
another area are Python 3 syntax.  Being able to distinguish between
these would be nice for heterogeneous deployment environments, but is
particularly important for developers who are working on Python 3
conversions.

It would be good to have a PYTHON3PATH which, if present, would be
honored instead of PYTHONPATH.  PYTHONPATH could still be honored if
PYTHON3PATH was not present, so this is purely a new feature and
shouldn't have much impact on compatibility.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 63820
nosy: glyph
severity: normal
status: open
title: PYTHON3PATH environment variable to supersede PYTHONPATH for multi-Python environments
versions: Python 3.0

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