PYTHON3(1)

💖 PYTHON3 💖

bestie. okay. the python3 page from the receptor-python-worker manual, section 1. that's the vibe. this is the Receptor worker helper and she is booked and busy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

python3 — Receptor worker helper 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

the way it works is basically this:

usage: python3 [option] ... [-c cmd | -m mod | file | -] [arg] ...

Options (and corresponding environment variables):

🎀 the options, all of them, no skips, periodt

• -b — throws warnings when you convert bytes/bytearray to str, and when you compare bytes/bytearray with str, or bytes with int. and if you want FULL drama mode, -bb turns those into straight-up errors 💀
• -B — do NOT write .pyc files on import, period. also settable as PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=x 🧚
• -c cmd — the program is passed in as a string. heads up: this terminates the option list, so everything after it is not an option anymore ✋
• -d — turn on parser debugging output. for experts only, and lowkey it only works on debug builds. also PYTHONDEBUG=x 🔥
• -E — ignore all the PYTHON* environment variables (like PYTHONPATH). she does not see them. she does not know them 🙈
• -h — print this help message and dip. also available as -? or --help 💅
• -i — inspect interactively after running the script. it forces a prompt even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal. also PYTHONINSPECT=x ⭐
• -I — isolate Python from the user's environment. this implies -E, -P and -s. she's in her own little bubble, main character energy 🦋
• -m mod — run a library module as a script. and yes, this terminates the option list too ✨
• -O — remove assert and __debug__-dependent statements, and add .opt-1 before the .pyc extension. also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x 👑
• -OO — does all the -O changes AND discards docstrings, plus adds .opt-2 before the .pyc extension. double optimized, double iconic 💜
• -P — don't prepend a potentially unsafe path to sys.path. also PYTHONSAFEPATH 🌈
• -q — don't print the version and copyright messages on interactive startup. quiet girl era 🤫
• -s — don't add the user site directory to sys.path. also PYTHONNOUSERSITE=x 🍓
• -S — don't imply 'import site' on initialization 🌸
• -u — force the stdout and stderr streams to be unbuffered. ngl this option has no effect on stdin though. also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x 💖
• -v — verbose: it traces import statements. also PYTHONVERBOSE=x. and you can supply it multiple times to increase verbosity, because apparently one -v was never enough for her 😭
• -V — print the Python version number and exit. also --version. and if you give it twice, it prints more information about the build. she's showing off 🎀
• -W arg — warning control, where arg is action:message:category:module:lineno. also PYTHONWARNINGS=arg ✨
• -x — skip the first line of source, which lets you use non-Unix forms of #!cmd 🦋
• -X opt — set an implementation-specific option 👑
• --check-hash-based-pycs always|default|never — control how Python invalidates hash-based .pyc files. three choices, no in-between, choose your fighter 💅
• --help-env — print help about Python environment variables and exit 🌸
• --help-xoptions — print help about implementation-specific -X options and exit 💜
• --help-all — print complete help information and exit. the whole entire lore, bestie 🙈

🌟 Arguments 🌟

• file — program read from script file 📄
• - — program read from stdin (this is the default; interactive mode if it's a tty) 💖
• arg ... — arguments passed to the program in sys.argv[1:] ⭐

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

so the full documentation for python3 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. and if info and python3 are properly installed at your site, this command:

info python3

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk 💅✨

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okay that's the whole page, no cap. this one's from python3 1.6.6, dated June 2026, out of the PYTHON3(1) manual like we said at the top 🫶 go run something cute, bestie 🎀💖✨