Hack for getting python scripts to run like cmd files - including the ability to redirect stdio (I can't believe this bug in windows cmd processor - Windows really sucks for command line types).

Quoted: On Windows NT, the steps taken by the installer as described above allow you to run a script with 'foo.py', but a longtime bug in the NT command processor prevents you from redirecting the input or output of any script executed in this way. This is often important.
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The incantation for making a Python script executable under WinNT is to give the file an extension of .cmd and add the following as the first line:
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@setlocal enableextensions & python -x %~f0 %* & goto :EOF