From 23bf837a37836a45af599f8943c507e6a2a4865f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:40:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add blurb about executable scripts on Windows. #760657. --- Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 1ba14d94852..5a3431dd37c 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ The script can be given an executable mode, or permission, using the $ chmod +x myscript.py +On Windows systems, there is no notion of an "executable mode". The Python +installer automatically associates ``.py`` files with ``python.exe`` so that +a double-click on a Python file will run it as a script. The extension can +also be ``.pyw``, in that case, the console window that normally appears is +suppressed. + Source Code Encoding --------------------