On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:00:57 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 July 2011 02:41, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > The use of py from the command line is merely a convenience for developers > > (as > > the PEP says) - it's better to rely on shebang lines together with settings > > in > > the .ini to get the behaviour you want. > > But it's a *huge* convenience for running multiple Python versions, > particularly as no existing Python versions install executables with > the version in the name (python3.exe, python3.2.exe, etc). Perhaps this could be changed? As far as I can see, python.exe is a small executable around ~25KB (all the code being in the DLL), so there doesn't seem to be any harm to make a copy of it named either pythonXY.exe or pythonX.Y.exe. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
