[Python-Dev] Python launcher command line usage (Was: 3.2.1 encoding surprise)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:00:57 +0100
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 July 2011 02:41, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > The use of py from the command line is merely a convenience for developers (as
> > the PEP says) - it's better to rely on shebang lines together with settings in
> > the .ini to get the behaviour you want.
> 
> But it's a *huge* convenience for running multiple Python versions,
> particularly as no existing Python versions install executables with
> the version in the name (python3.exe, python3.2.exe, etc).

Perhaps this could be changed? As far as I can see, python.exe is
a small executable around ~25KB (all the code being in the DLL), so
there doesn't seem to be any harm to make a copy of it named either
pythonXY.exe or pythonX.Y.exe.

Regards

Antoine.