On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > My preferred solution for this is to rename "py.exe" to "python.exe" (or > rather, make a copy of it with the new name), and extend (or more likely, > rewrite) the launcher such that: > > * if argv[0] == "py.exe", use PEP 514 company/tag resolution to find and > launch Python based on first command line argument > * if argv[0] == "python<numeric tag>.exe", find the matching > PythonCore/<tag> install (where tag may be a partial match - e.g. > "python3.exe" finds the latest PythonCore/3.x) > * else, if argv[0] == "<module><numeric tag>.exe, find the matching > PythonCore/<tag> install and launch "-m <module>" > > With the launcher behaving like this, we can make as many hard links as we > want in its install directory (it only gets installed once, so only needs > one PATH entry, and this is C:\Windows for admin installs): > * python.exe > * python2.exe > * python3.exe > * python3.6.exe > * pip.exe > * pip2.exe > * pip3.exe
I haven't been following this thread closely, but this sounds lovely. I'm not terribly keen on cluttering up C:\Windows with this, but that's a minor issue. -- Zach _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/