When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable to have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for day to day use.
However, currently the Windows py launcher defaults to the highest version that it finds, which means that unless you are very careful you will end up having to explicitly specify your older version every time that you start python with it once you have installed the newer version. I an thinking that it would be relatively simple to expand the current launcher functionality to allow the user to set the default version to be used. One possible syntax, echoing the way that versions are displayed with the -0 option would be to allow py -n.m* to set and store, either in the registry, environment variable or a configuration file, the desired default to be invoked by py or pyw. Personally I thing that this would encourage more people to undertake testing of new candidate releases of python. I would be interested in any feedback on the value that this might add. -- Steve (Gadget) Barnes Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect those of my employer. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
