On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> wrote:

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Something I have been thinking about recently though is outside the scope of the pep is writing a python.exe, to replace the python.bat, that would  try to read the shebang line of the file to send it to the right version of python. Then I just associate py files with the dispatcher exe and everything should work as intended.

But where would such a python.exe live and how would that directory end up on the PATH?

System32 or C:\Program Files\Python (that exists regardless of the choses install location) I like the latter but the installer would need to add that to the PATH if it wasnt already there

On the more general idea though, it could have legs as it would solve the file association issue for files which include the shebang and arrange for the status-quo (or better) for files which don't...

But this sounds like a different PEP ;)

Yes absolutely a different pep so I split this to python-ideas