On 19 October 2011 00:18, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/10/2011 8:59 PM, Sam Partington wrote: >> ... and I can imagine lots of users swapping "python" with >> "py". > > Why would users choose to do that? Using "python" presumably already works > for them, so what benefit do they get? If the main advantage is they can > now use shebang lines, then the specific options the script wants can be > expressed in that line.
I use "py" interactively rather than "python" because I have 2.7 and 3.2 installed, and py -2 or py -3 gives me the explicit version I want without PATH hacking. If 2.7 and 3.x provided python2 and python3 executables explicitly I might not do this (I'm not at my PC right now so I can't recall if 3.x provides python3.exe as well as python.exe, there was talk of this certainly, but 2.7 definitely doesn't include python2.exe). Having said that, I don't use other command line options much, so the limitation doesn't bother me much (py -3 -m xxx would be the most likely usage I'd miss...) If the extra options really mattered to me, I could probably hack up a Powershell alias easily enough, but py -V is available and does 99% of what I need. Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
