[Python-Dev] PEP 397 (Python launcher for Windows) reference implementation (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 5 01:19:39 CEST 2011

One more thing about associations - we've got pyw.exe for Python.NoConFile and py.exe for Python.file, but how do we handle Python.CompiledFile? It doesn't really make sense to have the association not handled by the launcher. Unfortunately, of course, both pyw and py compile to pyo, so we don't know which launcher to use. It is, of course, easy for either py or pyw to determine which version of python is to be used to invoke a .pyc - just not which Windows variant.

BTW just as a test I implemented .pyc support in the C implementation - it works fine apart from the "python.exe or pythonw.exe?" question.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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