On 19 July 2011 16:16, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:00:57 +0100 > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 19 July 2011 02:41, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> > The use of py from the command line is merely a convenience for developers >> > (as >> > the PEP says) - it's better to rely on shebang lines together with >> > settings in >> > the .ini to get the behaviour you want. >> >> But it's a *huge* convenience for running multiple Python versions, >> particularly as no existing Python versions install executables with >> the version in the name (python3.exe, python3.2.exe, etc). > > Perhaps this could be changed? As far as I can see, python.exe is > a small executable around ~25KB (all the code being in the DLL), so > there doesn't seem to be any harm to make a copy of it named either > pythonXY.exe or pythonX.Y.exe.
I'm sure it could (and in fact, I thought that this had been discussed some time back and it may even be already happening in 3.3) but it doesn't help for existing versions, where the py.exe launcher does. So as a longer-term solution, supplying pythonXY.exe binaries may be useful (depending on how PEP 397 progresses), but the benefits won't be for quite some time. (And there's still the question of what gets put on PATH by default even if version-specific binaries exist). It's a topic worthy of discussion, but I suspect that in actual fact, PEP 397 may offer a more complete solution to the various Windows installation niggles. Two questions: 1. What level of support is there for PEP 397? If it's unlikely to get accepted, there's little point in basing a solution on it. 2. Would it be worth extending the goals of the PEP to make simplifying command line usage an explicit goal? Or is it better to keep PEP 397 focused on one thing and have a separate PEP covering such further extensions to the PEP 397 launcher? Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
