[Python-ideas] Windows temporary file association for Python files

[Ned Batchelder]

On 10/22/2012 8:42 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> A solution would be to teach launcher to honor PYTHON_PATH variable if
> it is set (please don't confuse it with PYTHONPATH which purpose is
> still unclear on Windows).
What are you talking about?  PYTHON_PATH doesn't appear in the CPython 
sources at all. PYTHONPATH has the same purpose on Windows that it has 
anywhere: a list of directories to prefix to sys.path to find modules 
when importing.

--Ned.