On 04/15/2014 10:12 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Something that came up during PyCon was the idea of a "py" script that brought "Python Launcher for Windows" explicit version dispatch to Linux.
Anyone care to try their hand at writing such a script?
I meant to bring this up at the PyCon sprints. On Windows, the launcher finds the various versions of Python by looking in the registry. How is a Linux version supposed to find what versions of Python are installed? I have a pristine 2.7 in /usr/local/bin and the system python 2.7 in /usr/bin. I've also seen /opt/bin used, and other places deliberately not on PATH. How would a launcher find these, let alone decide which one to use? I'll be around the sprints for a very short time this morning, if anyone wants to discuss it. Eric.