New submission from Jeff Dean :
Spun off from Issue3561:
I recently saw Brian Curtin's Pycon 2012 presentation. If a goal is to make it
easy for new Windows users to run python, consider (optionally) installing a
desktop shortcut. This would make it easy for new users to run python (e
Jeff Dean added the comment:
I just saw Brian Curtin's Pycon 2012 presentation. If a goal is to make it
easy for new users to run python, consider installing a desktop shortcut. This
would make it very easy for new users (easier than starting up a shell).
This is independent of the
Jeff Dean added the comment:
> * Patch Py_DeleteFileW in posixmodule.c so that it renames before
> deleting: should solve the problem overall but obviously has a
> possible wider impact, in general and on performance in particular.
> This rename might be a simple rename-to-guid
