[Python-Dev] The -U flag

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:20:05 -0400


> Maybe MAL remembers after seeing this checkin comment to Modules/main.c:
>
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.63
> date: 2002/02/11 18:46:47;  author: lemburg;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -1
> Remove mentioning of -U option in "python -h" output.
> ----------------------------

MAL did that after I whined a lot:  so long as -U was mentioned in the -h
blurb, users kept trying to use it -- that it didn't work, and spectacularly
so, gave them a wrong impression about Python, and wasted time on various
mailing lists explaining over & over that it wasn't "supposed to" work.