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PYTHONEXECUTABLE envvar incorrectly doc'd as mac-only and ignored by -E/-I #133525

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opened on May 6, 2025

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The documentation for the PYTHONEXECUTABLE environment variable incorrectly claims that it is Mac-only. This was changed sometime around 3.11.

Additionally, it isn't ignored by the -I and -E flags.

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  4. ned-deily commented on May 18, 2026

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    See my comment here. I'm not convinced yet that either the change in Python 3.11 to remove the macOS-only behavior of PYTHONEXECTUABLE or for it to be ignored by the -E and -I options was deliberate or desirable. I would still prefer to see it deprecated and removed as proposed in #91057. Let's continue the discussion on that issue.

  5. ned-deily
    closed this as a duplicateof Deprecate and eventually remove macOS-only PYTHONEXECUTABLE environ variable #91057 on May 18, 2026
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