On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > On 7/21/2011 8:20 AM, Michael Foord wrote: >> py launcher and python binaries behaving differently in this regard would be >> a recipe for confusion and hard to debug problems. > > I see the point. Although the incremental benefit is higher to Windows > users, and although we are creating a Windows-only piece of code that could > be the vehicle for adding the functionality, it would be beneficial for all > platforms, and a common implementation would serve that need better.
Well that, and the desire to have the Windows launcher *just* find an interpreter to run, so that "py -3.2 <args>" and "c:\python32\python <args>" handle the arguments the same way. While further discussion of the PATH walking concept should be done in a new thread on python-ideas, I'll note that I'm no longer actively opposed to the idea. However, I still think it needs its own PEP to work out the details (and whether or not it happens at all). 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
