[Python-Dev] Draft PEP and reference implementation of a Python launcher for Windows

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 19.03.2011 23:51, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:49 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> I, for example, will find issues with it if the implementation uses
>> CreateProcess at some point - the launcher should IMO run Python
>> directly, rather than creating a new process. This, in turn, will
>> probably mean that you cannot actually implement the PEP in Python.
> 
> runpy performs basically that dance to implement
> _run_module_as_main(), so it's definitely possible.

Does it also support loading a different interpreter version than the
one it is running?

Regards,
Martin