On 2 April 2013 01:47, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This PEP proposes to fix these problems by re-publicising the feature,
> defining the .pyz and .pyzw extensions as “Python ZIP Applications”
> and “Windowed Python ZIP Applications”, and providing some simple
> tooling to manage the format.
>

There is a bug in Windows Powershell, which is apparently due to a bug in
the underlying FindExecutable API, that can fail to recognise extensions
which are longer than 3 characters properly.

Rather than risk obscure bugs, I would suggest restricting the extensions
to 3 characters. For the “Windowed Python ZIP Applications” case, could we
use .pzw as the extension instead of .pyzw?

Please don't shoot the messenger here - I'm not going to try to defend such
a stupid Windows bug, but better to be safe in my view. Flames about
Windows to /dev/null...

Paul.
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