On approximately 2/19/2010 7:52 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Eric Smith: > Glenn Linderman wrote: >> On approximately 2/19/2010 1:18 PM, came the following characters >> from the keyboard of P.J. Eby: >>> At 01:49 PM 2/19/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: >>>> I'm not sure how this should best work on Windows (without symlinks, >>>> and where things generally work differently), but I would hope if >>>> this idea is more visible that someone more opinionated than I would >>>> propose the appropriate analog on Windows. >>> >>> You'd probably have to just copy pythonv.exe to an appropriate >>> directory, and have it use the configuration file to find the "real" >>> prefix. At least, that'd be a relatively obvious way to do it, and it >>> would have the advantage of being symmetrical across platforms: just >>> copy or symlink pythonv, and make sure the real prefix is in your >>> config file. >>> >>> (Windows does have "shortcuts" but I don't think that there's any way >>> for a linked program to know *which* shortcut it was launched from.) >> >> No automatic way, but shortcuts can include parameters, not just the >> program name. So a parameter could be --prefix as was suggested in >> another response, but for a different reason. > > Shortcuts don't work from the shell (well, cmd.exe, at least), do > they? Can't test from here. So if you can't test it, why would you state it as a fact... and then back-pedal? :) Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. d:\>python.exe Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> exit() d:\>c:\python26\python.exe ActivePython 2.6.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 21 2009, 15:05:37) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> exit() d:\>d:\python.exe.lnk d:\>ActivePython 2.6.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 21 2009, 15:05:37) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> So this makes it look like it works fine. But doing exit() from the shortcut-started python fails... it hangs, eventually the whole CMD shell dies, if you poke it enough. I'm going to let it sit there a long time ... until I shut down, and see if it ever exits properly. The form d:\>start python.exe.lnk gives the python its own window, and that works/exits fine. So, shortcuts do work from the shell, but there might be some issues, and you might have to type the .lnk to invoke them (I haven't played with adding .lnk or .exe.lnk to PATHEXT) I don't have a clue if the above problem is a Windows issue, or a Python issue. -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking
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