Quoting Paramjit Oberoi psoberoi@gmail.com:

With a slightly longer script, and a little work in the installer, these could be written as:

Installed: runpy.py profile demo.py Prompt After: runpy.py -i profile demo.py Alt install: runpy2.4.py profile demo.py Build dir: ./runpy.py profile demo.py

• or - ./scripts/runpy.py profile demo.py

Indeed, it may be possible to get those to *run*, but the problem is that the semantics of the following two commands are likely to differ:

python <interpreter-options> runpy.py module <script-args> python runpy.py <interpreter-options> module <script-args

And getting the semantics close enough that the remaining differences don't matter is likely to be a pain. Certainly, you won't be able to use execfile() any more, because it doesn't support passing compiler flags.

And the script doesn't have to get much more complicated before it becomes _harder_ to understand and maintain than the C code required to implement '-m' (which is really pretty straightforward when it is limited to top-level modules).

Cheers, Nick.