Can't execute an external program !

[Neil Hodgson]

> As other people start making additional/competing Python distributions
> for Windows, we will (hopefully) find many of these win32 extensions as
> standard.  If we dont, then someone who _does_ bundle them is likely to
> have a more successful distribution, IMO.
>
> Any thoughts on that?

   I'd like to see the Python download smaller rather than larger so I'm not
in favour of adding large chunks of the Win32 extensions - just the bits I
like, OK :) Lua manages a full script interpreter in 160K, and less than 80K
if compressed with UPX, so Python looks bloated to me.

   All that is really needed is for Sam Rushing's calldll/windll to be
included in the standard distribution. Then any required OS calls could be
implemented in Python rather than requiring an extension written in C. I
know it opens Python up to the world of untyped, unchecked hardware pointers
but the increase in capability is large.

   Why are Unix specific modules like commands included in the Win32
installation? It just leads to the confusion which caused this thread.

   Neil