From 32aa5d2c0b1ee20fc5eaff85e3b9392f6973ff2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:43:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe -E (which was added to 2.2a2). --- Misc/NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.40.0