[Python-Dev] New update to PEP397 - Python launcher for Windows

[Mark Hammond]

On 21/07/2011 6:32 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 7/20/2011 11:35 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
>>      * If the command starts with the definition of a customized command
>>        followed by a space character, the customized command will be used.
>>        See below for a description of customized commands.
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>>      Then a shebang line of '#! vpython' in a script named 'doit.py' will
>>      result in the launcher using the command-line 'c:\bin\vpython.exe -foo
>>      doit.py'
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> Shouldn't the second paragraph include a space before the 2nd ' ?  In
> other words, the command as quoted does not show a "customized command
> followed by a space character" as the definition requires.  I don't know
> why the space character is required, or maybe "white space" was meant,
> so that the line terminating newline character qualifies also to delimit
> the customized command?

Yes, thanks for pointing that out - I've pushed a new version of the PEP 
with that paragraph reading as:

"""
If the command starts with the definition of a customized command 
followed by a whitespace character (including a newline), the customized 
command will be used.  See below for a description of customized commands.
"""


Thanks,

Mark
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