Re: #! /usr/bin/python{,3} -Es

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>, 2012-10-25, 10:56:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/938869
>
> When you write system scripts like 'lsb_release' that use 
> /usr/bin/python{,3} in the #! line, please remember to include -Es 
> switches. This prevents the crash in question, where a VMware 
> installer script was mucking with $PYTHONHOME for its own purposes, 
> with the side effect of breaking Python's search for its stdlib. The 
> bug notices it in lsb_release first, and we fixed that in Ubuntu, but 
> any other Python-based system script that the VMware script would have 
> called would also be broken.

Surely that's a bug in VMware, not in lsb_release?

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Jakub Wilk