[Linux-SIG] Introducing a Python launcher for *nix?

[Fred Drake]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The first motive is consistent cross platform invocation - due to the way
> Python invocation on Windows is handled, commands like "python3 -m pip" and
> "python3.4 -m pip" don't work, and never will, and the differences in file
> system layouts exclude the use of absolute paths.

Thanks for explaining, Nick!  I agree that's a very real group of
use-cases, and this sounds like the right kind of approach for that.
Since I'm not in those particular trenches (or the Windows miasma), I
probably won't have a clue regarding the details of what these users
need.


  -Fred

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