>   * ../../python.exe changed to sys.executable.
>   * Figleaf is 69kb.  It seems to work fine doing it all in one read()
>  call.  Should it be chunked?

At 69kb, nah.  It should be good enough for the first cut.

>   * Optparse isn't used, partially because I'm lazy and partly because
>  I'm not actually parsing the command line, just chopping the first
>  element off and then passing it off to regrtest.py.  It is the job of
>  regrtest.py to parse the command line. <-- My opinion

Oh sorry, I only meant to remove the import since it wasn't used.  I
wasn't secretly trying to get you to do more work (at least not yet).
:-)