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Author	barry
Recipients	barry, brett.cannon, carljm, eric.snow, lukasz.langa, ncoghlan, rhettinger
Date	2018-05-16.22:19:54
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On May 15, 2018, at 22:58, Carl Meyer <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Our use case includes a webserver process that embeds Python; I'm not sure if we could pass a CLI arg to it or not. I think you pretty much have to have an environment variable, as there are just too many places where you’re going to invoke Python without the ability to set the command line. We have precedence for having both a switch and environment variable, and I think that makes sense here.

On May 15, 2018, at 22:58, Carl Meyer <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> Our use case includes a webserver process that embeds Python; I'm not sure if we could pass a CLI arg to it or not.

I think you pretty much have to have an environment variable, as there are just too many places where you’re going to invoke Python without the ability to set the command line.  We have precedence for having both a switch and environment variable, and I think that makes sense here.

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