On 6 March 2011 02:33, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond@gmail.com> wrote:
IIUC, the PEP language is referring to links which point to a specific version of Python and that there is no suggestion a 'python3' will live in the Python 3 binary tree. If that is correct and assuming we don't want to investigate using links on Windows, I'd suggest the best analogy to the *nix situation could be simply for the installers to generate "python2.bat" and "python3.bat" files and put them in System32 with a "last installed wins" policy.
No, no, no! Please no! Bat files are a lousy way of writing wrappers on Windows, as they don't nest. I've lost count of the number of times I've been tripped up by putting a series of commands into a batch file, only to have them fail because somewhere in the middle is a bat file wrapper which makes the "outer" bat file stop part way through :-( </rant> Paul.