[Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

Jugurtha Hadjar jugurtha.hadjar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 17:12:39 CET 2012


On 23/02/2012 16:46, Dave Angel wrote:
> I'm not running Windows any more (except in a VirtualBox), but your 
> batch files could be improved:
>
> Since you only have the one useful line in the batch file, just put 
> the @ on that line;  no need to turn off echo for the whole file, when 
> the file is one line.
>
> And i forget whether it's  %*   or %$    but there is a substitution 
> string you can use to mean "all the arguments", rather than just 
> taking one.  Remember that sometimes people want to run python with 
> multiple arguments.
>
> I also made a "bat" directory, and added it to the PATH.  Then you put 
> both those batch files, plus some others, into the bat directory.  
> That assumes you'll keep finding more utilities you'd like to add to 
> the path.
>
> No biggie, just trying to help.  There are more complicated changes 
> that I used to do, which I won't mention here.
>
> -- 
>
> DaveA

Hey, these are very neat ideas (especially the "bat" folder and the 
arguments point) .. Thank you !

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~Jugurtha Hadjar,



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