Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: @eryksun That is (was) an .lnk indeed, and adding ".lnk" to PATHEXT is exactly what I did to make it work. This is much more maintainable than registry hacks.
An .lnk is launched with ShellExecute which returns control immediately upon successful launch (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31855240/execute-exe-as-jpg/31861241#31861241 for how this happens from `cmd' prompt). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26189> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
