Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-05-18 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:58:57AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote: >> While I hesitate to suggest a change of such magnitude, there's >> something to recommend the old IBM mainframe approach of separating out >> "Principles of Op

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Nick Coghlan schrieb: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Steve Holden schrieb: >>> Paul Moore wrote: On 04/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about > the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment varia

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
Georg Brandl wrote: > Steve Holden schrieb: >> Paul Moore wrote: >>> On 04/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment variables and details on what

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Steve Holden schrieb: > Paul Moore wrote: >> On 04/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about >>> the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment variables >>> and details on what can be executed? >> >> Th

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:58:57AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > While I hesitate to suggest a change of such magnitude, there's > something to recommend the old IBM mainframe approach of separating out > "Principles of Operation" (which would be the reference manuals, in > Python's case the Lang

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:40 PM 3/4/2008 +0300, Oleg Broytmann wrote: >On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:14:04AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > As a more helpful answer, the ZIP spec allows additional data to be > > included in the file before the ZIP header. A more common way of using > > this is to add a zip file on to the

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:14:04AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > As a more helpful answer, the ZIP spec allows additional data to be > included in the file before the ZIP header. A more common way of using > this is to add a zip file on to the end of an ELF executable while still > using normal z

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:35:42PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> not needing an explicit interpreter option makes it more shebang friendly > >Sorry, I missed something here. How does one combine a zipfile with > a shebang script?! Very carefully ;) As a more helpful a

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Moore wrote: > On 04/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about >> the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment variables >> and details on what can be executed? > > There is a Python man page, whic

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:35:42PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > not needing an explicit interpreter option makes it more shebang friendly Sorry, I missed something here. How does one combine a zipfile with a shebang script?! Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmannhttp://phd.pp.ru/

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 04/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about > the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment variables > and details on what can be executed? There is a Python man page, which covers the command line u