On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:24 PM, Kirill Balunov <kirillbalu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps this is a silly question but still...There is PEP 394 "The "python" > Command on Unix-Like Systems" which I find very reasonable, no matter how > it is respected. Why was not _somewhat_ the same done for Windows? > > Sometimes I use, especially in IPython, to run externally: > ! python3 -m dis <module> > ! python3 -m timeit ... > ! python3 -m pip install ... > > And to make this work the same under Windows, the first step which I do > after installation is to copy `python.exe` and rename it to `python3.exe` > (for python 2.7 copy `python.exe` and rename it to `python2.exe`). May be > there is a better way to do this under Windows, I would like to know? This > copy-rename works for me, but it will not work for someone who does not > have administrative rights. > > p.s.: I know there is a `py` launcher under Windows, but is does not help > in this situation.
Why doesn't it? That's what its job is. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
