Am 17.07.2013 15:33, schrieb Paul Moore:
On 17 July 2013 14:13, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org <mailto:thel...@ctypes.org>> wrote:Am 15.07.2013 19:26, schrieb Donald Stufft: Maybe this is a crazy idea, but would a windows only extension work? .pye(executable) Then just associate .pye with the launcher. Python won't see .pye as importable so there's no shadow issues. pip.bat? That's my cue to cry :-) If you missed my earlier comments about bat files, then no - bat files have a significant number of failings that make them unsuitable for this sort of thing.
Yes, missed them. Sorry that I did not read enough of the discussion, I just stumbled over some messages in this thread and .bat popped up in my head. I still use them for quite some things although I have been bitten by their problems myself often enough.
I'm afraid exe files as wrappers are probably the only viable option. The basic reason is that the OS recognises exe files in all context, with no special configuration needed. This is not true of any other file type. So anything else will have corner cases that will give unexpected results.
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