[Python-Dev] 3.2.1 encoding surprise (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Jul 21 02:13:57 CEST 2011

On 7/20/2011 2:43 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

It's not py's job to walk the path: the shell does that when you just type "foo". It locates foo.py, and then invokes py because of file association - py then checks the file for a shebang to decide which Python to dispatch it to. Certainly when the launcher is invoked via an association, this would be the case. However, when the launcher is invoked via the command line, then the unqualified name is passed through. To be useful from the command line, the launcher should walk the PATH to find the .py file.

The Windows SearchPath API <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365527%28v=VS.85%29.aspx> makes it a pretty easy job to walk the PATH. Would even allow low cost additional feature of searching for both foo and foo.py at the same time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20110720/67faf951/attachment.html>

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