Use an extensionless `x` script for non-Windows

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Modern Linux and macOS systems commonly only have a thing called `python3` and
+# not `python`, while Windows commonly does not have `python3`, so we cannot
+# directly use python in the x.py shebang and have it consistently work. Instead we
+# have a shell script to look for a python to run x.py.
+
+set -eu
+
+realpath() {
+    if [ -d "$1" ]; then
+        CDPATH='' command cd "$1" && pwd -P   
+    else
+        echo "$(realpath "$(dirname "$1")")/$(basename "$1")"
+    fi
+}
+
+xpy=$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/x.py
+
+# On Windows, `py -3` sometimes works. We need to try it first because `python3`
+# sometimes tries to launch the app store on Windows.
+for SEARCH_PYTHON in py python3 python python2; do
+    if python=$(command -v $SEARCH_PYTHON) && [ -x "$python" ]; then
+        if [ $SEARCH_PYTHON = py ]; then
+            extra_arg="-3"
+        else
+            extra_arg=""
+        fi
+        exec "$python" $extra_arg "$xpy" "$@"
+    fi
+done
+echo "$0: error: did not find python installed" >&2
+exit 1