[Python-Dev] Add python.exe to PATH environment variable (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Wed Sep 3 16:05:20 CEST 2008

Paul Moore schrieb:

Bat files don't work when called from another bat file. This hits me regularly, when people supply wrapper bat files. Example:

myscript.bat: @echo off do some stuff python mypyscript.py do some more stuff If "python" is a bat file, "do some more stuff" will never get run (you need to say "call python" to allow bat files to nest). -1 (or stronger!) on a bat file. If it goes in anyway, make it optional and off by default. The confusion and wasted time caused by bat files "stopping" part way through is FAR worse than that caused by having to manage PATH for yourself. Paul. PS If anyone knows a good way of writing wrapper scripts on Windows which doesn't suffer from the bat file nesting problem above, please let me (and the rest of the world!) know!

/F's exemaker and Philip's setuptools script wrapper come to mind.

-- Thanks, Thomas

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