In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wrote: > > > >> 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. This subthread was specifically about your python -c "import foo.bar" arg suggestion. Just -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
