python h_Python -h

usage: python [option] ... [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] ... Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):

-b : issue warnings about str(bytes_instance), str(bytearray_instance) and comparing bytes/bytearray with str. (-bb: issue errors)

-B : don't write .py[co] files on import; also PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=x

-c cmd : program passed in as string (terminates option list)

-d : debug output from parser; also PYTHONDEBUG=x

-E : ignore PYTHON* environment variables (such as PYTHONPATH)

-h : print this help message and exit (also --help)

-i : inspect interactively after running script; forces a prompt even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal; also PYTHONINSPECT=x

-I : isolate Python from the user's environment (implies -E and -s)

-m mod : run library module as a script (terminates option list)

-O : optimize generated bytecode slightly; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x

-OO : remove doc-strings in addition to the -O optimizations

-q : don't print version and copyright messages on interactive startup

-s : don't add user site directory to sys.path; also PYTHONNOUSERSITE

-S : don't imply 'import site' on initialization

-u : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr, stdin always buffered; also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x see man page for details on internal buffering relating to '-u'

-v : verbose (trace import statements); also PYTHONVERBOSE=x can be supplied multiple times to increase verbosity

-V : print the Python version number and exit (also --version) when given twice, print more information about the build

-W arg : warning control; arg is action:message:category:module:lineno also PYTHONWARNINGS=arg

-x : skip first line of source, allowing use of non-Unix forms of #!cmd

-X opt : set implementation-specific option

file : program read from script

file - : program read from stdin (default; interactive mode if a tty)

arg ...: arguments passed to program in sys.argv[1:]

Other environment variables:

PYTHONSTARTUP: file executed on interactive startup (no default)

PYTHONPATH : ';'-separated list of directories prefixed to the default module search path. The result is sys.path.

PYTHONHOME : alternate directory (or ;). The default module search path uses \lib.

PYTHONCASEOK : ignore case in 'import' statements (Windows).

PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.

PYTHONFAULTHANDLER: dump the Python traceback on fatal errors.

PYTHONHASHSEED: if this variable is set to 'random', a random value is used to seed the hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects.

It can also be set to an integer in the range [0,4294967295] to get hash values with a predictable seed.

PYTHONMALLOC: set the Python memory allocators and/or install debug hooks on Python memory allocators. Use PYTHONMALLOC=debug to install debug hooks.