From 615368fbfa75700d2d598f4b965ab2f7efbd8356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barry Warsaw Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:12:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the -J and -X options for CPython. Note that unlike for py2k, we don't need to document -U becuase it's gone in py3k. --- Doc/using/cmdline.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++-- Misc/NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 7c9b511ad66..540e4d7b0f9 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -238,8 +238,6 @@ Miscellaneous options See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`. -.. XXX should the -U option be documented? - .. cmdoption:: -v Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place @@ -315,6 +313,20 @@ Miscellaneous options .. note:: The line numbers in error messages will be off by one. +Options you shouldn't use +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. cmdoption:: -J + + Reserved for use by Jython_. + +.. _Jython: http://jython.org + +.. cmdoption:: -X + + Reserved for alternative implementations of Python to use for their own + purposes. + .. _using-on-envvars: Environment variables diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 3dd680a6355..fe7e6f6ad0c 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -701,6 +701,9 @@ Build Documentation ------------ +- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's + -J and -X options. + - Document that importing a module that has None in sys.modules triggers an ImportError.