[issue21506] Windows MSI installer should mklink (symlink) python.exe to python2.7.exe
eryksun
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Wed May 14 19:43:40 CEST 2014
eryksun added the comment:
Here's a related superuser question:
http://superuser.com/q/304093
The message box shown in the older answer is what I get:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/bqXBs.png
The problem is only with Explorer. I can execute a symbolic link to an EXE via cmd, subprocess.Popen, os.startfile (ShellExecute), and so on. Also, Explorer only does this for the executable file types that I mentioned. It has no problem opening symbolic links to .py files; the difference is the open command line for a Python.File includes a program to run:
C:\>ftype Python.File
Python.File="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*
It works if I change the shell\open\command for the exefile type to run via cmd /c. But that's just silly.
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