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

[Vlad Riscutia]

If versioned filenames are added in addition to python.exe, it still might
look confusing for most users: Why do I have python and python3.2
executables? What's the difference? I'd rather go with -v argument either
way, for people that *know* they want to call Python 3.2 instead of Python
3.1...

Thank you,
Vlad

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 22/07/2011 03:03, Vlad Riscutia a écrit :
> > I'm kind of -1 on changing Python executable name. It would make sense
> for
> > different major versions, where there are known incompatibilities, so
> > python2-python3 would make sense but python31 python32 not that much...
> >
> > If my team is using Python and it gets pre-installed with other
> dev-tools,
> > do I need to let everyone know they must call python*31*? And if we
> upgrade,
> > make sure everyone knows they should now call python*32*? What if we have
> > scripts that call python? Make sure we update all of them whenever minor
> > version is changed?
>
> If I understand correctly, adding versioned filenames like python3.3.exe
> would happen in addition of python.exe, not in replacement.
>
> Regards
>
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