On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:04 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 19.03.2011 23:51, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:49 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> 
>> wrote:
>>> I, for example, will find issues with it if the implementation uses
>>> CreateProcess at some point - the launcher should IMO run Python
>>> directly, rather than creating a new process. This, in turn, will
>>> probably mean that you cannot actually implement the PEP in Python.
>>
>> runpy performs basically that dance to implement
>> _run_module_as_main(), so it's definitely possible.
>
> Does it also support loading a different interpreter version than the
> one it is running?

Ouch, no. I guess you're right, any Python based solution will need to
create a child process.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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