[Python-Dev] Python launcher command line usage (Was: 3.2.1 encoding surprise)

[Vlad Riscutia]

OK then. I don't have a *strong* opinion against it, just thought that most
people have one version of Python, maybe 2 versions as in 2.x and 3.x, so I
would understand python2.exe, python3.exe but yeah, it's not that big of a
deal either way.

Thank you,
Vlad

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 20:30, Vlad Riscutia <riscutiavlad at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> If versioned filenames are added in addition to python.exe, it still might
>> look confusing for most users: Why do I have python and python3.2
>> executables? What's the difference? I'd rather go with -v argument either
>> way, for people that *know* they want to call Python 3.2 instead of
>> Python 3.1...
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Vlad
>>
>
> Honestly, would it really be that confusing? Seeing python32.exe inside
> C:\Python32 shouldn't be a huge surprise, and ActiveState has been doing
> something like this for years (forever?).
>
> Versioned executables in addition to the standard python.exe is something
> I've wanted for a while, but that's outside of this PEP. This way you could
> have C:\Python27 and C:\Python32 on your path and explicitly open up the
> right one.
>
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