[Python-Dev] Adding Python scripts to PATHEXT on Windows

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 July 2013 18:42, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 July 2013 09:40, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds good to me - in the long run it may allow us to drop the Windows
>> exe wrappers when installing scripts on Windows.
>
>
> That's my motivation. In particular removing pip's exe wrappers to ease some
> of the issues being flagged on distutils-sig.

Ah, true. For some reason I was thinking we kept __main__.__file__
open, but we don't - we close it as soon as we have read and compiled
it.

Cheers,
Nick.

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