eryksun added the comment: Here's a related superuser question:
http://superuser.com/q/304093 The message box shown in the older answer is what I get: http://i.stack.imgur.com/bqXBs.png The problem is only with Explorer. I can execute a symbolic link to an EXE via cmd, subprocess.Popen, os.startfile (ShellExecute), and so on. Also, Explorer only does this for the executable file types that I mentioned. It has no problem opening symbolic links to .py files; the difference is the open command line for a Python.File includes a program to run: C:\>ftype Python.File Python.File="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %* It works if I change the shell\open\command for the exefile type to run via cmd /c. But that's just silly. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21506> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com