From 7a59e82e30c23b98a887d328680cfbbeabb37607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xtreak Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:35:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [3.7] bpo-33095: Add reference to isolated mode in -m and script option (GH-7764) Attempt to make isolated mode easier to discover via additional inline documentation. Co-Authored-By: Julien Palard . (cherry picked from commit bdd6945d4dbd1fe6a7fcff95f7d6908db7d791a1) Co-authored-by: Xtreak --- Doc/using/cmdline.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index dca89eceeda98a..6a60bc4954c625 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ source. first element will be set to ``"-m"``). As with the :option:`-c` option, the current directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`. + :option:`-I` option can be used to run the script in isolated mode where + :data:`sys.path` contains neither the current directory nor the user's + site-packages directory. All :envvar:`PYTHON*` environment variables are + ignored, too. + Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution as a script. An example is the :mod:`timeit` module:: @@ -119,6 +124,7 @@ source. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 namespace packages are also supported +.. _cmdarg-dash: .. describe:: - @@ -130,6 +136,8 @@ source. :data:`sys.path`. +.. _cmdarg-script: + .. describe::