[Python-Dev] a simpler way to invoke pydoc, pdb, unittest, etc

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:46, Ilya Sandler wrote:

> When a script specified from command line is not found and the script name
> does not end with py, treat the script as a module name and execute
> that module as __main__
> 
> So
> python pdb
> would be equivalent to
> python /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.py
> 
> A possible variation of the same idea would be to have an explicit
> command line option -m (or -M). More typing, but less magic...

With the command line switch, +1.

One problem with the "just install it" approach is that you often get
Python from downstream packagers that make their own decisions about
which additional scripts to include.  There's also namespace collision
issues in bin directories to deal with.  So Ilya's suggestion avoids
both of those problems.

-Barry

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