[Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Feb 12 21:11:49 CET 2015

On 02/12/2015 11:44 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

On 2/12/2015 9:39 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 02/12/2015 12:05 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:

Could not py.exe be extended so that it allows starting scripts in a somewhat similar way? 'py-script -2.7 myscript foo bar baz' ??? Which would execute the script myscript.exe, myscript.bat, myscript.py, myscript.cmd or whatever is in the Scripts directory on the Python 2.7 installation, without changing PATH presistently? I'm pretty sure py.exe should only start .py files, not .bat, .cmd, or .anything-else. IIRC, it already can be configured to start other things. I think I even used it for that early on in Vinay's development cycle, just to prove it, although the things I used it for then were not things I'm still doing.

I believe you are correct; however, as the PEP for the launcher stated [1] "use as a general-purpose (aka non-python) launcher is explicitly not supported".

-- Ethan

[1] or something to that effect -- basically, it may work, but you're on your own if you use it that way.

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