On 11/19/2010 9:22 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: [...] > Indeed, > it doesn't make sense there since executables are limited to .BAR or .CMD > files, which are directly interpreted by the command processor, and .EXE > or .COM files, which must be compiled before they can be run. AFAIK > there's no way you can mark anything else, such as an awk, Perl or Python > source file, as executable since there is no 'executable' attribute in > any Windows filing system.
Under Windows you use the PATHEXT mechanism to mark an extension as executable. Then finding a file with that extension on the PATH will trigger it to be run by the registered interpreter. As far as I know, anyway. By default on my Vista system I see PATHEXT contains C:\Users\sholden\workspace\Python3_Lesson3\src>echo %PATHEXT% .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
