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Re: PYTHONPATH woes
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: PYTHONPATH woes |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:18:40 +0100 |
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On Tue 20 Feb 2018 16:01, Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:53:54AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Would it be good to make the wrappers for Python scripts stricter and
>> not accept any user-set PYTHONPATH?
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> I think that is a bad idea. You need to be able to opt out.
Why? I am not sure this is the case for programs that just happen to be
written in Python.
> That should come with a health warning ;). Similarly we should allow
> for LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. It is what they exist for, even if it is
> dangerous.
In Guix we don't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH but we do set PYTHONPATH, so it's
not quite the same I don't think.
Andy