Windows versions of Python---pros and cons?

[Mark Hammond]

Chris Barker wrote:

> On that note: does anyone know if there is a way to turn a Python script
> into something that acts like an application on Windows...without
> resorting to Py2exe and the like. What I want is something just like:

Add the .py extension to your PATHEXT environment variable, and you can 
execute "foo.py" at the command prompt.  Like much of Windows, this is 
based on the extension rather than file attributes.

Mark.