[py-dev] Problems with DOS files

[holger krekel]

[Brian Dorsey Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:58:12PM -0800]
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:40:09 -0600, Patrick K. O'Brien
> <pobrien at eclypse.org> wrote:
> 
> > Take that back.  Courtesy of Matthew Scott, here is a clever, two-line
> > solution (concatenate that second line if it breaks):
> >
> > pytest.bat
> > ==========
> > @echo off
> > python -c "import py; from py.__impl__.test.cmdline import main; main()" %1
> > %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> 
> I think something along these lines is a good general solution for
> windows users. A distutils installer could also copy this to the
> pythonXX\scripts directory.
> 
> Personally, though... I find it convenient to have the .py extension
> associated with Python, so in this case, I'm a bit tempted to just
> copy py.test to the rather oddly named py.test.py.

Is *.py normally executable on windows after you installed Python? 

cheers, 

    holger