On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:35:42 -0700, Dj Gilcrease <digitalx...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/19/10, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > > At 01:49 PM 2/19/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > >>I'm not sure how this should best work on Windows (without symlinks, > >>and where things generally work differently), but I would hope if > >>this idea is more visible that someone more opinionated than I would > >>propose the appropriate analog on Windows. > > > > You'd probably have to just copy pythonv.exe to an appropriate > > directory, and have it use the configuration file to find the "real" > > prefix. At least, that'd be a relatively obvious way to do it, and > > it would have the advantage of being symmetrical across platforms: > > just copy or symlink pythonv, and make sure the real prefix is in > > your config file. > > > > (Windows does have "shortcuts" but I don't think that there's any way > > for a linked program to know *which* shortcut it was launched from.) > > win2k and later have a form of sym link, the api for it is just not > provided in a nice simple app like it is on nix platforms.
See also http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269, which proposes an implementation of os.symlink for windows, and appears to be just about ready to go in. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
