Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API

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Date	2015-05-08 11:46 +1000
Subject	Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.211.1431049585.12865.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>>> Whole programming cultures, idioms and "right ways" differ between
>>> platforms. What's the right way to write a service (daemon)? That's
>>> probably completely different between Windows and Linux. Linux itself is
>>> undergoing a biggish transformation there: an exemplary daemon of last
>>> year will likely be deprecated within a few years.
>>
>> And that's where a library function can be really awesome. What's the
>> right way to daemonize? "import daemonize; daemonize.daemonize()"
>> seems good to me. Maybe there's platform-specific code in the
>> *implementation* of that, but in your application, no. That's the job
>> of a layer underneath you.
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/

Precisely. It's definitely within the language's purview; that that
PEP is deferred is not due to it being a bad idea for the
language/stdlib to deal with these differences.

ChrisA

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PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Stefan Zimmermann <zimmermann.code@gmail.com> - 2015-05-06 15:11 -0700
  Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-06 20:58 -0400
  Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 12:19 +1000
    Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-07 13:33 +1000
      Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 13:57 +1000
      Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2015-05-07 09:15 +0200
        Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Stefan Zimmermann <zimmermann.code@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 02:38 -0700
          Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Stefan Zimmermann <zimmermann.code@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 03:03 -0700
            Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-07 13:10 +0300
              Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 20:24 +1000
              Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-07 07:28 -0400
              Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 21:43 +1000
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-07 15:41 +0300
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 22:53 +1000
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-07 16:44 +0300
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 00:03 +1000
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-07 18:24 +0300
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Stefan Zimmermann <zimmermann.code@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 08:45 -0700
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-07 21:13 +0300
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Stefan Zimmermann <zimmermann.code@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 16:27 -0700
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 11:50 +1000
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-08 12:26 +1000
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-08 09:14 +0300
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-07 09:14 -0600
                Re: PEP idea: On Windows, subprocess should implicitly support .bat and .cmd scripts by using FindExecutable from win32 API Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 11:46 +1000

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