import juliacall loads the startup.jl

[mahiki]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have a startup file in my local environment for REPL work. When loading packages or scripts from the command line I call julia with julia --startup-file=no. There does not appear to be a way to skip the startup file in a Python repl.

Describe the solution you'd like
import juliacall should default to loading julia environment with --startup-file=no option.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I could move or rename startup.jl file so it wont be found by the julia environment.

Additional context
I'm developing a python application that will call a julia module to make dataframe transformations.

[cjdoris]

Good idea, I'll look into it.

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[cjdoris]

You can now start Python with the option -X juliacall-startup-file=no to disable startup.jl. This feature will appear in the next release (our you can try it out by installing from the repo).

I'm going to leave the default as yes though, since that's the Julia default.

[ma-sadeghi]

@cjdoris Would you consider also adding support for an env variable to disable the startup file?

[cjdoris]

You already can, see the docs.

[ma-sadeghi]

Right, sorry I missed the docs.
For future reference: https://juliapy.github.io/PythonCall.jl/stable/juliacall/#julia-config