If you ask me, having it hosted by Trent is probably more helpful for its popularity than putting it in the Python source distro; the Tools directory is mostly a poorly-maintained collection of trivia I wrote many years ago that is now quietly gathering dust.
(Not all of it, of course; there's some useful stuff there that I *didn't* write, which ended up there because it is either *used* by the distro (e.g. the compiler package support) or because the author needed a channel that guaranteed open source status (e.g. world and pynche). But Trent's which.py doesn't seem to fall in either category.) --Guido On 3/31/07, Shane Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trent Mick has a module called which.py that might make a nice > platform-independent replacement for python2.5/Tools/scripts/which.py. > > > > > http://www.trentm.com/projects/which/ > > > Why which.py? > > |which.py| is a small GNU-which replacement. It has the following features: > > * it is portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Un*x); > * it understands PATHEXT and "App Paths" registration on Windows > (i.e. it will find everything that |start| does from the command > shell); > * it can print all matches on the PATH; > * it can note "near misses" on the PATH (e.g. files that match but > may not, say, have execute permissions); and > * it can be used as a Python module. > > I also would be happy to have this be a replacement for the |which.py| > in the Python CVS tree at |dist/src/Tools/scripts/which.py| which is > Unix-specific and not usable as a module; and perhaps for inclusion in > the stdlib. > > > -- > Shane Geiger > IT Director > National Council on Economic Education > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 402-438-8958 | http://www.ncee.net > > Leading the Campaign for Economic and Financial Literacy > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > > > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
