[Python-Dev] PEP 405 (Python Virtual Environments) and Windows script support

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 28 May 2012 17:25:10 +0000 (UTC)
Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> The foo.exe file is just a copy of a stock launcher executable which finds its
> name from the C argv[0], and based in that name (foo in this case), invokes
> foo-script.py or foo-script.pyw with the appropriate Python interpreter.

Regardless of what the executable is or does, its source code must be
included somewhere in the Python source tree (and, preferably, there
should be a simple procedure to build the binaries).

Regards

Antoine.