[Python-Dev] Second draft: PEP397: Python launcher for Windows

[Michael Foord]

On 24/03/2011 00:44, Dj Gilcrease wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark Hammond<mhammond at skippinet.com.au>  wrote:
>> If you guys (or anyone) would like to agree on some precise rules for both
>> the location of the config file and its contents and express this as a patch
>> to the PEP text, I have no problem supporting it in the implementations.
>>   I'd like to insist that the format of the config file was such that the
>> GetPrivateProfileString() Windows function could be used to extract the data
>> (eg, only '=' can be used to separate the name/value pair, case-insensitive
>> and no support for string interpolation) as I have no interest in writing my
>> own config file parser in C :)
> In the user directory much like TortoiseHG adds a murcurial.ini file
> to the users directory for basic globa config the launch could look
> for a python.ini there and use to to add known paths or version
> overrides on a user by user basis.

A single global location (for shared installs) or a single per-user 
location for per-user installs would seem to be sensible if the config 
file route is chosen.

All the best,

Michael Foord

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