[Python-Dev] Status of PEP 397 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Status of PEP 397 - Python launcher for Windows

Mark Hammond skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 00:48:01 CET 2012

On 21/02/2012 2:54 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:

On 18/02/2012 05:24, Mark Hammond wrote: ...

* Write some user-oriented docs. The section in the docs "Using Python on Windows" would need to be updated, but would this have to happen for every current version of Python?

I'm not sure what docs you are referring to here?

The docs here https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher/src/tip/Doc/launcher.rst are in my view possibly overkill, what do the rest of you think?

Even though I had no input into those docs, I actually think they are fairly good and can't see what should be dropped. It may make sense to split the docs so there is a separate "advanced" doc page. Further, I think there is something that could be added to those docs - the use of PATHEXT and the fact that once the shebang line is in place, a command-prompt could do just "hello.py" rather than needing "py hello.py".

The ouput from py --help seems fine but nothing happens when pyw --help is entered, is this by accident or design?

I guess "accident" - or more accurately, the lack of doing anything special. It could be useful to have that display a message box with the usage - while that would break "pyw --help > out.txt", I doubt that really is useful for anyone. Alternatively, instead of trying to display all the usage in "pyw --help", it could display a short message indicating what the program is for and refer to "py.exe --help" for more information. Possibly a plain "pyw" (with no args) could do the same thing - nothing useful happens in that case either.

Thoughts or comments?

Mark A cracking bit of kit :)

Thanks! Vinay's implementation is great, I agree.

Thanks,

Mark

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