On 6 November 2015 at 12:10, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Doesn’t py.exe just look at some ini files and environment variables to > decide what to invoke? I’m not sure why we couldn’t just replicate that > behavior. Is there something that py.exe does that we can’t also do in Python?
What's there might be possible in Python, but there are some nasty special cases. The launcher code looks in the registry, and in order to support running both 32 and 64 bit Pythons from the same launcher exe, it needs to play tricks to see both the 32 and 64 bit registry values, and I'm not sure the APIs to do that are exposed to Python so it may need ctypes. Doable certainly, easy not so sure. We could of course do a simplified version and not try to be precisely equivalent to the launcher behaviour - but that may also cause user confusion. The simplest cases are easy, it's the corner cases that get nasty. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
