On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 01:47:46AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
What would be good is if the launcher had an additional flag telling it to not actually start python, but just report the path to it, something like:
$ py --dry-run my_script
C:\Python34\python.exe
Ooh that would be a nice feature. I'd be inclined to call it --query rather than --dry-run, but that's just bike-shedding.
Sometimes bike-shedding has a bad reputation. Option names should reflect what they do. --dry-run suggests that it will run the script except for anything destructive (e.g. writing or deleting files, printing a 300 page report). --query is better, but query what? This isn't a common command that needs to be short even at the expense of being cryptic, so how about a self-documenting switch like: --which-executable --which-python and -w for those who insist on having short cryptic switches :-) -- Steven