Peter Hansen wrote: > Patrick Useldinger wrote: >>> (9) Any good reason why the "executables" don't have ".py" >>> extensions on their names? >> >> (9) Because I am lazy and Linux doesn't care. I suppose Windows does? > > Unfortunately, yes. Windows has nothing like the "x" permission > bit, so you have to have an actual extension on the filename and > Windows (XP anyway) will check it against the list of extensions > in the PATHEXT environment variable to determine if it should be > treated like an executable. > > Otherwise you must type "python" and the full filename.
Or use exemaker, which IMHO is the best way to handle this problem. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
