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Marco Perniciaro wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been working with Python for a long time.
> Yet, I came across an issue which I cannot explain.
> 
> Recently I have a new PC (Windows 7).
> Previously I could call a Python script with or without the "python" word
> at the beginning. Now the behavior is different if I use or not use the
> "python" prefix!
> 
> I only have Python 2.7 installed and the path in in my environment
> variable. I create a simple file called "example.py" which contains two
> lines:
> 
>       import sys
>       print sys.argv
> 
> This is the output result:
> 
>       C:\Users\mapr>example.py a b c
>       ['C:\\Users\\mapr\\example.py']
> 
>       C:\Users\mapr>python example.py a b c
>       ['example.py', 'a', 'b', 'c']
> 
> Can someone please explain?

I'm not a Windows user, but I'd try

http://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html#executing-scripts

with python.exe instead of pythonw.exe. Maybe the %* is missing.