[Lots of different techniques to trick Windows/DOS into starting a Python script] It is becoming rather obvious that the python -x trick is not sufficient for Windows/DOS. Wouldn't it be a lot cleaner if we invented a new command line switch to provide whatever parsing technique is necessary in order to provide a truely clean solution with everything in one file ? E.g. perhaps we need something like: -X n : skip the first n lines in support of OS specific startup code And then: @echo off pathtopython -X 4 scriptfilenamehere %0 %1 ... exit # Start of Python code [program code goes here] -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 04 2005)
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