[Python-ideas] pep 397

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 15.01.2015 15:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Wolfgang Maier
> <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> What would be good is if the launcher had an additional flag telling it to
>> not actually start python, but just report the path to it, something like:
>>
>> $ py --dry-run my_script
>>
>> C:\Python34\python.exe
>
> Ooh that would be a nice feature. I'd be inclined to call it --query
> rather than --dry-run, but that's just bike-shedding. Any other
> programs could make use of this feature too - maybe they want to run a
> wrapper that ultimately invokes some script, so the wrapper gets
> written to be 2.7 and 3.3+ compatible, and then design it to be run
> using the target script's interpreter.
>

Right, that was what I was thinking of, too.