[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (Rationale part 1: Regularizing the layout) (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Mar 26 23:26:34 CEST 2012

On 3/26/2012 1:21 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

Hmm. And here's something else that might be missing: integration of the launcher with .py files that are actually ZIP archives... where does it find the #! line? (probably it can't, currently -- I couldn't figure out how to make it do it). Is it possible to add a #! line at the beginning of a ZIP archive for the launcher to use, and still have Python recognize the result as a ZIP archive? I know self-extracting archives put an executable program in front of a ZIP file, and the result is still recognized by most ZIP archivers, but I tried just putting a #! line followed by a ZIP archive, and Python gave me SyntaxError: unknown decode error.

OK, my first try there, I forgot the stupid Windows /b switch on copy, so apparently the ZIP archive got mangled.

When I use ropy /b to join

#!/usr/bin/python3.2

and a zip file, it now works. Sorry for the noise. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120326/f1dbb2fd/attachment.html>

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