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

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:
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>> * 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