(Windows) "Dropping" stuff onto a Python script

[Tim Golden]

daniel.haude at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> I'd like to have the functionality known from "real" executables that
> if I drag-drop a file icon on top of the app, the app starts and has
> the file's path as command-line argument.
> 
> However, this doesn't seem to work with Python scripts because Windows
> sees those just as files, not apps.
> 
> Can this be done?

There may be fancier ways but...

... prefix the shortcut target with the python executable:

c:\python25\python.exe myscript.py

I've just tested this with a script which does this:

<code>
import os, sys

os.startfile (sys.argv[1])

</code>

and it works ok.

TJG