On 3/4/2011 1:35 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

I'd still like the PEP to tell me whether it's python3w.exe or
pythonw3.exe (and yes, that's bikeshedding - so somebody just tell
me). It would also be good if the PEP took a position on providing
pythonXY.exe binaries on Windows (with the related question of
whether it's python32w.exe, python3.2w.exe, pythonw32.exe or pythonw3.2.exe)

I agree the PEP should address these issues. And since it is bikeshedding, as you say, I'm happy to just follow along.

I see no particular advantage to any of the choices, except that both "w", and ".exe" are Windows-only things, so making it "just like Unix" + Windows-only things would seem more convenient, in some ways. So I'll start the voting for

python VERSION [w] .exe

as the windows sequence. Whatever form of VERSION, with or without dots, is done for Unix seems good for Windows too, as far as I can tell.