From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:43:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Describe -E (which was added to 2.2a2).
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~74
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32aa5d2c0b1ee20fc5eaff85e3b9392f6973ff2d;p=python

Describe -E (which was added to 2.2a2).
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a4d739517a..02d4968760 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ Core
   to a dictionary object.  Getting func.__dict__ before any attributes
   have been assigned now returns an empty dictionary instead of None.
 
+- A new command line option, -E, was added which disables the use of
+  all environment variables, or at least those that are specifically
+  significant to Python.  Usually those have a name starting with
+  "PYTHON".  This was used to fix a problem where the tests fail if
+  the user happens to have PYTHONHOME or PYTHONPATH pointing to an
+  older distribution.
+
 Library
 
 - New class Differ and new functions ndiff() and restore() in difflib.py.