[Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python

[Michael Foord]

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On 19 Feb 2010, at 22:52, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> On approximately 2/19/2010 1:18 PM, came the following characters  
>> from the keyboard of P.J. Eby:
>>> 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.)
>> No automatic way, but shortcuts can include parameters, not just  
>> the program name.  So a parameter could be --prefix as was  
>> suggested in another response, but for a different reason.
>
> Shortcuts don't work from the shell (well, cmd.exe, at least), do  
> they? Can't test from here.

They do if you add .lnk to your PATHEXT environment variable.

Michael




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