Am 28.01.2011 20:29, schrieb Raymond Hettinger:
At the very least, we should add some prominent instructions for getting the command line version up and running.
/me pops out of Guido's time machine and says: "execute Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py" I'm -1 on adding Python to %PATH%. The private MSVCRT DLLs may lead to unexpected side effects and it doesn't scale at all. What about people with more than one Python installation? I suggest that we add a single user specific directory or a global directory to %PATH% for all installations. Then the Python installer or 3rd party modules can drop executables like python3.3.exe or plip-3.3.exe into this directory. A .bat file won't do good because .bat files must be called with "call python33.bat" from another .bat file or the first one gets terminated. We can even use a single and simple executable as template for all tasks: * get registry key from resource section of the executable * use the registry key to lookup the location and name of pythonXX.dll * load DLL * get optional dotted module name for resource section * either fire up interpreter as shell, with **argv or -m dotted.module.name **argv Done ;) Christian