[Python-Dev] New update to PEP397 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] New update to PEP397 - Python launcher for Windows

Mark Hammond skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 10:51:15 CEST 2011

On 21/07/2011 6:32 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

On 7/20/2011 11:35 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:

* If the command starts with the definition of a customized command followed by a space character, the customized command will be used. See below for a description of customized commands.

Then a shebang line of '#! vpython' in a script named 'doit.py' will result in the launcher using the command-line 'c:\bin\vpython.exe -foo doit.py' Shouldn't the second paragraph include a space before the 2nd ' ? In other words, the command as quoted does not show a "customized command followed by a space character" as the definition requires. I don't know why the space character is required, or maybe "white space" was meant, so that the line terminating newline character qualifies also to delimit the customized command?

Yes, thanks for pointing that out - I've pushed a new version of the PEP with that paragraph reading as:

""" If the command starts with the definition of a customized command followed by a whitespace character (including a newline), the customized command will be used. See below for a description of customized commands. """

Thanks,

Mark

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