[Thomas Heller wrote] > > There is a bug in the current cmd.exe (or maybe it is only up to Win2k? > > can't remember) where shell redirection doesn't work if your script is > > launched indirectly via a .bat of .cmd file. As well, Ctrl+C signal > > handling for kill a script is quite annoying if launched via a .bat > > file: you get a secondary question from the shell > > > > Terminate batch file (Y/N)? > > > > or something like that. A .exe launcher/stub is definitely preferred. > > Isn't the shell redirection problem also present if the .py script is > run via the shell association?
Oh shoot, I think I was wrong and you are right: the shell redirection problem is for the case of using the PATHEXT stuff. I.e. I think shell redirection works fine with a .bat or .cmd stub. Sorry about causing confusion. > The Ctrl+C behaviour annoys me also because I usually run my scripts > via batch files (py23.bat, py24.bat, py_d.bat and so on). > Maybe this problem can be avoided by copying the python.exe's somewhere > to my path, with names p23.exe, p24.exe and so on. They only contain a > pointer to the actual PythonXY.dll name, afaik. So I don't have to > update p24.exe when I install 2.4.2 over my 2.4.1. I tend to copy python.exe to pythonXY.exe (as appropriate) after I install a new Python. I'm considering doing this by default in the ActivePython installers I make. (Similar to the pythonX.Y executable copies that get made on Linux/Un*x.) What do you think? > > Somewhat similar to the exemaker approach, but using the name of the exe > to specify the Python version instead of a '-i ...' command line option, > or the #! line in the script. Agreed. > The only missing piece so far, for me at least, is that it's not > possible to use dotted module names with the -m option: > > p24 -m ctypes.wrap.h2xml windows.h That's too bad. I didn't know "-m" didn't support that... but then I haven't really used it that much yet. Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
