[Python-Dev] a simpler way to invoke pydoc, pdb, unittest, etc (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Sep 27 16:51:28 CEST 2004

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:46, Ilya Sandler wrote:

When a script specified from command line is not found and the script name does not end with py, treat the script as a module name and execute that module as main

So python pdb would be equivalent to python /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.py A possible variation of the same idea would be to have an explicit command line option -m (or -M). More typing, but less magic...

With the command line switch, +1.

One problem with the "just install it" approach is that you often get Python from downstream packagers that make their own decisions about which additional scripts to include. There's also namespace collision issues in bin directories to deal with. So Ilya's suggestion avoids both of those problems.

-Barry

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