[Alan Gauld] > Thanks Danny, interesting link in that it shows a solution I > didn't know about in the one-liner at the bottom of the discussion. > > But really I was hoping someone could explain *why* there is a > difference. If PATHEXT can detect that intest.py needs to be run > through Python why doesn't redirection work as expected? What > is happening to stdin/stdout in this case?
Alas, only Microsoft could explain this, and AFAIK they never really have. It's not unique to Python, of course. Here's a confused MS article about it: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321788 _Some_ of the PATHEXT-related redirection bugs did get fixed in XP, but not all of them. I haven't tried adding the registry entry they suggest there. The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer key doesn't even exist on my XP (Pro, SP2) box, but does exist if I start from HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
