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25.0.50; MS-Windows needs a different default for python-shell-interpreter-args

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: fgallina <at> gnu.org, 18596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18596: 25.0.50; MS-Windows needs a different default for python-shell-interpreter-args
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:37:20 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: fgallina <at> gnu.org (Fabián Ezequiel Gallina),
>   18596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:29:43 -0500
> 
> > I'm surprised you consider documenting bugs to be a solution for those
> > bugs.  Bugs should be fixed, not documented.  If Emacs knows that in
> > certain situation it should invoke Python with -i, it should do that
> > automatically.  Or it should do something else to fix the hang, but
> > leaving the hanging behavior is IMO simply wrong, and even unbecoming.
> 
> Adding "-i" to a command received as argument would definitely be
> problematic

I agree.  When a command is given, run-python should obey it.  In this
case, it's the responsibility of whoever provides the command to make
it DTRT.

> but if the command specified is "nil", I agree that we should
> provide the needed args for the command to run correctly,
> (i.e. include "-i").

Obviously, I agree with that, too ;-)

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