On 2:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<pan.2010.10.26.17.38.14.766...@nowhere.com>, Nobody wrote:
python.exe is a console executable, pythonw.exe is a GUI executable. Hence
python.exe automatically gets a console window, while pythonw.exe doesn't.
That's the whole reason why Windows has separate python.exe and
pythonw.exe programs, while Unix can use a single /usr/bin/python program
for both GUI and console usage.
The Windows approach makes it easier to Do The Right Thing automatically
...
Except it provides no easy way to capture the contents of that “console”,
for when you’re trying to track down problems, because it disappears as soon
as the program exits.
It would be a stretch indeed to call this “doing the right thing”,
automatically or otherwise.
Once I realized you had no objective other than Windows bashing, I
dropped out of this thread. If the answer to this present
pseudo-complaint isn't obvious to you, you clearly don't know Windows.
DaveA
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