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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 21:23:15 CET 2015

On 12 February 2015 at 20:11, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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".

Yes, I once used it to start Perl scripts, just because it appealed to the perverse instinct in me. Part of me wishes there had been a problem, so that I could be the one who raised a legitimate bug on bugs.python.org saying "Python encounters an error when running a Perl script" :-)

Paul

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