[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 #7 from Tobias Mueller  2009-03-30 21:36 UTC -------
Hey Edward. I don't know gstreamer or it's python bindings at all, but I see a
way around it:

Couldn't you make the call to gst_init() mandatory for the client using the
bindings? Many modules do such a thing, take pyGTK for example.

The user then could decide which parameter to pass and which not. Having
gstreamer handling sys.argv is ugly and will cause trouble for many people.

In fact, I would expect that the imported module handles arguments to my
program. It simply shouldn't unless I explicitly ask it to.
Also, it is very common to organize imports at the beginning of a python
module. With the current behaviour, you force programs to have their code
restructured in a ugly way, because gst being the only module which behaves
strangely.


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