On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:56 AM, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> A Windows equivalent would be to have a .py file associated normally >> with the regular console, but some individual ones associated with >> pythonw.exe - without renaming them to .pyw. AFAIK there is no way to >> do this on Windows short of renaming the files. > > If using another file is ok, then a shell shortcut or hard link would > work.A symbolic link doesn't work because it seems the shell resolves > the link before querying the file association.
As workarounds go, a hardlink isn't too bad. (A shell shortcut has its own problems and limitations.) But you still need to be able to define a filename pattern, usually by specifying an extension, that catches the alternates. So it's definitely a workaround, not a true feature. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list