On 2012.09.30 22:06, Edward Diener wrote: > The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to use > this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards > compatible with Python 2.x. It's a separate tool that comes with 3.3. You can install 3.3 and never use the actual 3.3 interpreter if you wish.
> That does not solve the problem for Python 2.x distributions. Compatibility across versions of Python is irrelevant; the launcher doesn't execute any Python code itself. Straight from the PEP: > The launcher is not tied to a specific version of Python - eg., a > launcher distributed with Python 3.3 should be capable of locating and > executing any Python 2.x and Python 3.x version. -- CPython 3.3.0 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17835 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list