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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 21 05:50:21 CET 2011


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Windows doesn't support exec.

Hmmm. In that case, if the launcher works by loading a pythonXY.dll,
I'd say that sys.executable should point to whatever version of
python.exe corresponds to that dll.

Generally, things should be made to look as much as possible as
if that python.exe had been executed in the first place.

-- 
Greg


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