On 15 November 2017 at 19:29, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: >> My preferred solution for this is to rename "py.exe" to "python.exe" (or >> rather, make a copy of it with the new name), and extend (or more likely, >> rewrite) the launcher such that: >> >> * if argv[0] == "py.exe", use PEP 514 company/tag resolution to find and >> launch Python based on first command line argument >> * if argv[0] == "python<numeric tag>.exe", find the matching >> PythonCore/<tag> install (where tag may be a partial match - e.g. >> "python3.exe" finds the latest PythonCore/3.x) >> * else, if argv[0] == "<module><numeric tag>.exe, find the matching >> PythonCore/<tag> install and launch "-m <module>" >> >> With the launcher behaving like this, we can make as many hard links as we >> want in its install directory (it only gets installed once, so only needs >> one PATH entry, and this is C:\Windows for admin installs): >> * python.exe >> * python2.exe >> * python3.exe >> * python3.6.exe >> * pip.exe >> * pip2.exe >> * pip3.exe > > I haven't been following this thread closely, but this sounds lovely. > I'm not terribly keen on cluttering up C:\Windows with this, but > that's a minor issue.
Agreed. That sounds sufficiently awesome that I'll try to find some of my essentially-non-existent coding time and largely-forgotten C skills to implement it. Remind me of that promise in 6 months when I've failed to report any progress :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
