[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 549879] gst-python managing sys.argv while it shouldn't

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  GStreamer | gst-python | Ver: 0.10.12




------- Comment #12 from Tobias Mueller  2009-04-03 21:12 UTC -------
Heya,

(In reply to comment #10)
> So yeah it would allow you to do something like this:
> """
> import pygst
> pygst.require('0.10')
> pygst.will_handle_init
> import gst
> <do your arg parsing BUT YOU CAN NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE>
> gst.init
> <start using/mentionning the gst module symbols>
> """
> 
> Is it really that much more flexible than:
> """
> import pygst
> pygst.require('0.10')
> <do your arg parsing>
> import gst
> <start using/mentionning the gst module symbols>
> """
> 
Yes. For various reasons, the most important one being that many python
programs organize their imports on the top. You wouldn't force them to change
that.
Another one, that it's not very pythonic to have modules implicitly use
sys.argv when importing.

If I programmed with pygst, it'd annoy me pretty much :) But also: I don't
really care.


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