[issue18491] Add "exe wrapper" functionality to Windows launcher

[Paul Moore]

Paul Moore added the comment:

Correct about .pyw files - I had forgotten those, I will update the patch.

The idea of "support code" was to (somewhat) alleviate Mark's question about "what is this for", I was wondering if it was worth adding a module to the stdlib which did the job of saving a renamed copy of the launcher alongside a user-specified script.

Note that (AIUI) there is still value in this even if the launcher is installed - people have suggested that other approaches don't work for one reason or another. For example, you cannot execute .py scripts directly from the command line unless you manually add .py to the PATHEXT variable (as the Python installer does not do this).

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