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

Vlad Riscutia riscutiavlad at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 18:02:35 CEST 2011

OK then. I don't have a strong opinion against it, just thought that most people have one version of Python, maybe 2 versions as in 2.x and 3.x, so I would understand python2.exe, python3.exe but yeah, it's not that big of a deal either way.

Thank you, Vlad

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>wrote:

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 20:30, Vlad Riscutia <riscutiavlad at gmail.com>wrote:

If versioned filenames are added in addition to python.exe, it still might look confusing for most users: Why do I have python and python3.2 executables? What's the difference? I'd rather go with -v argument either way, for people that know they want to call Python 3.2 instead of Python 3.1...

Thank you, Vlad Honestly, would it really be that confusing? Seeing python32.exe inside C:\Python32 shouldn't be a huge surprise, and ActiveState has been doing something like this for years (forever?). Versioned executables in addition to the standard python.exe is something I've wanted for a while, but that's outside of this PEP. This way you could have C:\Python27 and C:\Python32 on your path and explicitly open up the right one. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20110722/7451ce49/attachment.html>

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