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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 08:25:26 CET 2015

On 13 February 2015 at 05:50, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 12 February 2015 at 16:42, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:

IIRC, there was a PEP for executing ZIP files directly (2.6-era?), which I believe are the purpose of those extensions. If "py.exe spam.pyz" already works, I don't see any need for a PEP to add the association in the installer. Yes, "py spam.pyz" works fine. +1 on having the associations. Actually, I've just remembered, it's already in PEP 441, which hasn't been approved but which goes further and includes a stdlib tool to create pyz files. I'm not sure if that changes things at all...

Zip archive & directory execution support was added in 2.6 by way of a tracker issue rather than a full PEP, but we didn't realise we left it out of the What's New docs until a few years later. That meant a lot of folks missed the addition of the feature.

PEP 441 was aimed at giving the feature more visibility, in addition to making appropriately designed archives easier to create (IIRC, my main request for that PEP was to change the proposed module name to the more prosaic, but also more self-explanatory, "pyzapp", although it looks like I may have suggested that to Daniel offline rather than through the mailing list).

Regardless, the PEP's not controversial as far as I am aware, so it would be nice if someone had the time to get it cleaned up and formally proposed for 3.5 (assuming Daniel was OK with that).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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