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