[Python-Dev] Python launcher command line usage (Was: 3.2.1 encoding surprise)
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jul 22 11:49:04 CEST 2011
On 22/07/2011 02:30, Vlad Riscutia wrote:
> 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...
>
It doesn't seem to be too confusing for Linux / Mac OS X users where you
have both. What's more it's very useful. I still like being able to
specify version from the launcher, it's probably what I will use it most
for (on the rare occasions I still use Windows).
Michael
> Thank you,
> Vlad
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org
> <mailto: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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