[Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python

[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.