[Python-Dev] proposed which.py replacement (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Mar 31 22:39:37 CEST 2007
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If you ask me, having it hosted by Trent is probably more helpful for its popularity than putting it in the Python source distro; the Tools directory is mostly a poorly-maintained collection of trivia I wrote many years ago that is now quietly gathering dust.
(Not all of it, of course; there's some useful stuff there that I didn't write, which ended up there because it is either used by the distro (e.g. the compiler package support) or because the author needed a channel that guaranteed open source status (e.g. world and pynche). But Trent's which.py doesn't seem to fall in either category.)
--Guido
On 3/31/07, Shane Geiger <sgeiger at ncee.net> wrote:
Trent Mick has a module called which.py that might make a nice platform-independent replacement for python2.5/Tools/scripts/which.py.
http://www.trentm.com/projects/which/ Why which.py? |which.py| is a small GNU-which replacement. It has the following features: * it is portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Un*x); * it understands PATHEXT and "App Paths" registration on Windows (i.e. it will find everything that |start| does from the command shell); * it can print all matches on the PATH; * it can note "near misses" on the PATH (e.g. files that match but may not, say, have execute permissions); and * it can be used as a Python module. I also would be happy to have this be a replacement for the |which.py| in the Python CVS tree at |dist/src/Tools/scripts/which.py| which is Unix-specific and not usable as a module; and perhaps for inclusion in the stdlib. -- Shane Geiger IT Director National Council on Economic Education sgeiger at ncee.net | 402-438-8958 | http://www.ncee.net Leading the Campaign for Economic and Financial Literacy
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