5 Oct
2004
5 Oct
'04
3:24 a.m.
- Change the Windows Python binary to add .py (and .pyw, maybe) to PATHEXT
I don't like that. The Python Windows installer doesn't add, or modify, any environment variables now. It's anti-social to muck with them. Anyone using "a DOS box" should know how to do that themself -- if that's what they want. I'll note that I spend much of my life in a WinXP DOS box running Python programs, but I haven't set PATHEXT. Since cmd.exe's path completion fills in the trailing .py on a .py file all by itself, setting PATHEXT wouldn't save me any typing.
Right. Typing the .py is usually the right thing to do. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)