In message <mailman.187.1287916654.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 2:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> In message >> <mailman.154.1287832721.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel wrote: >> >>> Presumably the original pythonw.exe was called that because it's marked >>> as a windows-app. In win-speak, that means it has a gui. Applications >>> that are not so-marked are console-apps, and get a console created if >>> they weren't already started from one. That's where stdin/stdout/stderr >>> get pointed. >> >> Which is completely backwards, isn’t it? >> > No. GUI programs are marked as win-app, so w stands for "Windows". Non > GUI programs run in the console. You mean “GUI console”. So non-GUI apps get a GUI element whether they want it or not, while GUI ones don’t. That’s completely backwards. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
