[Python-Dev] Draft PEP and reference implementation of a Python launcher for Windows

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Scott Dial
<scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:
> Why would that be true? Shouldn't this launcher just be a basic wrapper
> that cobbles together the arguments for an eventual os.exec*() call?
> What is there to do other than to exec the correct interpreter with (a
> subset of?) the command-line arguments?

Those all create a new process on Windows (there is much about Windows
process management which is annoying to anyone used to playing with a
Unix style process model).

Cheers,
Nick.

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