[Python-Dev] Python launcher command line usage (Was: 3.2.1 encoding surprise) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jul 21 02:08:56 CEST 2011

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:55:28 +1000 Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:

> The two proposals > overlap but are not mutually exclusive. For future pythons, 'python33' > is easier to remember and type than 'py -v 3.3' or whatever the proposed > encantation is. 'py -3.3' - less chars to type than 'python33' and with no need to have every Python directory on your PATH. IMO it is also simple enough that people will remember it fairly easily.

Given that Python 2.x has a "-3" option, isn't "py -3.3" kind of confusing, at least to the eye?

Regards

Antoine.

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