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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 00:17:24 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:

On 7/21/2011 8:20 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

py launcher and python binaries behaving differently in this regard would be a recipe for confusion and hard to debug problems. I see the point.  Although the incremental benefit is higher to Windows users, and although we are creating a Windows-only piece of code that could be the vehicle for adding the functionality, it would be beneficial for all platforms, and a common implementation would serve that need better.

Well that, and the desire to have the Windows launcher just find an interpreter to run, so that "py -3.2 " and "c:\python32\python " handle the arguments the same way.

While further discussion of the PATH walking concept should be done in a new thread on python-ideas, I'll note that I'm no longer actively opposed to the idea. However, I still think it needs its own PEP to work out the details (and whether or not it happens at all).

Cheers, Nick.

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