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[Python-Dev] Any tips to tell sprinter at PyCon about developing on Windows?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Feb 3 23:39:25 CET 2008 
On Feb 3, 2008 2:21 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
> > PCbuild/readme.txt says that pressing F6 will also build everything
> > fine. Is that true as well?
> >
> > And what is the best way to just launch an interpreter? Just
> > double-click the built executable? I assume sys.path will still be set
> > up properly to use the checkout.
>
> Build solution is F7 now. It's often faster to select the pythoncore
> project and select build from the right click menu if the developer only
> modifies a core file.
>
> You can set up the python project as startup project. F5 launches the
> startup project in a debug environment. Double clicking on the exe
> works, too. sys.path is set up properly.

Great! Just let me know if/when the vcbuild change is made to the
build.bat file and the Windows part of the slides are done.

I will post them online as a PDF for people to look over. I will also
try to make sure no matter their state to have them up before the next
bug day (which is when?).

-Brett
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