*Boy "eryksun" I can certsainly tell that you are quite a technically - minded person! All that matters to me is that I can simply type "pip" at the command prompt without any problems. Well another [lesser] concern is that I can't use the regular Windows 10 instead of this Build 10074 of it.*
* Steve Burrus * *On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:30 AM, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com <eryk...@gmail.com>> wrote:* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Steve Burrus <steveburru...@gmail.com > <steveburru...@gmail.com>> wrote: > well everyone there must be sometjhing > about upgrading Python up to version 3.5 rc > because everything works just > fine now, beyond my wildest dreams! I am even able > now to type in "pip" > and get the usual info. on it and I have connected to the Django > server > and configured the admin so thanx for eveyone who tried to help me. I just > tested running pip.exe on a VM with Windows 10, build 10074. It surprised > me that it worked, so I checked the source code of Vinay's [simple > launcher][1]. Apparently the simpler launcher merely asserts that creating > the job object succeeds, so it will only fail in a debug build. (See > run_child in launcher.c). Depending on the nature of the script it could be > confusing if there's no job object and the launcher gets killed. This > leaves python.exe and the shell competing for console input. That said, it > shouldn't really matter for a simple program such as pip. But the full > py.exe launcher used by Python always fails if creating the job object > doesn't succeed. (Oddly, it doesn't fail if *assigning* the child to the > job fails; I guess because Windows 7 lacks support for job hierarchies, but > still, it makes no sense to care about creating something that you don't > care about using.) So for build 10074 of Windows 10, ensure the filetypes > for .py and .pyw scripts (installed as Python.File and Python.NoConFile) > run python.exe and pythonw.exe instead of py.exe and pyw.exe. Otherwise you > won't be able to run scripts directly at the command prompt or by double > clicking them in Explorer. [1]: > https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/simple_launcher/src > <https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/simple_launcher/src> *
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