On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:49 PM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any particular reason the Windows python does it that way? > Certainly it wouldn't be too difficult to include a "python2.exe" and > "python3.exe", even as symbolic links.
Windows associates file types with applications by extension. When you double click on "holygrail.py" should it open with python2.exe or python3.exe? In Unix this is solved with a shebang, so the main purpose of py.exe is to do the same: it's the standard open handler for .py files and it delegates out the actual execution to the appropriate Python version by examining the file for version hints. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
