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>> as for the rest of your arguments, I have to assume that you were joking. >> (or >> that you have no experience whatsoever of distribution of Python programs in >> Unix and Windows environments). > > Whatever. You suggestion does not work in many cases. How about a > program that starts threads? Can't do that as a side effect of import. my suggestion was to make sure that the user can type "bar arg" to start a Python program called "bar" with the argument "arg". that's trivial, on all major platforms, despite what Nick says -- and yes, you can start threads from a program named "bar". try it. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
