In message <mailman.296.1288167734.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:
> 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. And yet here you are back again, like a bad smell. > If the answer to this present pseudo-complaint isn't obvious to you, you > clearly don't know Windows. I was just going by what was said in another thread: As you've noticed, many times a program started from the start menu doesn't leave its command window open long enough to read the messages. Maybe it was the write of this who “clearly doesn’t know Windows”? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list