[Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python

Dj Gilcrease digitalxero at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 22:35:42 CET 2010


win2k and later have a form of sym link, the api for it is just not
provided in a nice simple app like it is on nix platforms.

On 2/19/10, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 01:49 PM 2/19/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>>I'm not sure how this should best work on Windows (without symlinks,
>>and where things generally work differently), but I would hope if
>>this idea is more visible that someone more opinionated than I would
>>propose the appropriate analog on Windows.
>
> You'd probably have to just copy pythonv.exe to an appropriate
> directory, and have it use the configuration file to find the "real"
> prefix.  At least, that'd be a relatively obvious way to do it, and
> it would have the advantage of being symmetrical across platforms:
> just copy or symlink pythonv, and make sure the real prefix is in
> your config file.
>
> (Windows does have "shortcuts" but I don't think that there's any way
> for a linked program to know *which* shortcut it was launched from.)
>
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