Python Interpreter generated by buildout does not support -V option

[Eric Lapouyade]

For the python interpreter generated by buildout, that is, when you specify in buildout.cfg :

    ...
    [eggs]
    recipe = zc.recipe.egg
    eggs =
        ${buildout:eggs}
    extra-paths =
        ${buildout:directory}
        ${buildout:directory}/../../bin/pycharm/helpers
    interpreter = python

it does not recognize the -V option:

    $ <myproject>/bin/python -V
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "bin/python", line 87, in <module>
        _options, _args = __import__("getopt").getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'ic:m:')
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 90, in getopt
        opts, args = do_shorts(opts, args[0][1:], shortopts, args[1:])
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 190, in do_shorts
        if short_has_arg(opt, shortopts):
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 206, in short_has_arg
        raise GetoptError('option -%s not recognized' % opt, opt)
    getopt.GetoptError: option -V not recognized

A normal behaviour should be :

    # /usr/bin/python -V
    Python 2.7.5

This is normal because buildout generated an interpreter that does not include detection of -V option, one can see within the interpreter script:

    _interactive = True
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        _options, _args = __import__("getopt").getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'ic:m:')
        _interactive = False
        for (_opt, _val) in _options:
            if _opt == '-i':
                _interactive = True
            elif _opt == '-c':
                exec(_val)
            elif _opt == '-m':
                sys.argv[1:] = _args
                _args = []
                __import__("runpy").run_module(
                     _val, {}, "__main__", alter_sys=True)

The suggested fix is (buildout/easy_install.py) :

    _interactive = True
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        _options, _args = __import__("getopt").getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'Vic:m:')
        _interactive = False
        for (_opt, _val) in _options:
            if _opt == '-i':
                _interactive = True
            elif _opt == '-c':
                exec(_val)
            elif _opt == '-V':
                print sys.version.split(' ', 1)[0]
                exit()
            elif _opt == '-m':
                sys.argv[1:] = _args
                _args = []
                __import__("runpy").run_module(
                     _val, {}, "__main__", alter_sys=True)

Note : the '-V' option is mandatory to get PyCharm IDE fully working as it must detect python version to make a correct syntax coloring.