On 26/06/12 21:51:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:19:45 -0700 (PDT), David Thomas > <dthoma...@me.com> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > >> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/ilbqt > > That's an interesting configuration... > > "pythonw.exe" is a version of the Python interpreter designed to NOT > OPEN a console -- so you've got a configuration saying "open a console > to run a no-console interpreter".
That's on Windows; on the Mac python and pythonw are identical. In fact, they're hard links to the same file. > Normally pythonw.exe is used with scripts having .pyw extension; > these are scripts that use tkinter, wxPython, or other GUI system to > create a graphical environment and don't want a console (terminal) > window cluttering the screen when they don't use text I/O. > > Console based programs (.py) should be run using python.exe; adjust > your settings. That shouldn't matter on a Mac. You may want to check "allow #! to override", though. I mean, if there is a #! in a file pointing to a specific version of python, then it's probably there for a reason. For example, the script might use a third party module installed only in that Python install. >> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/r5ars > > And this is to be expected... In Python 2.x, "input()" attempts to > evaluate the input data, and you didn't supply anything -- hence EOF. > For your usage, you want "raw_input()", which just grabs the next line > of text and returns it as a string. What he says. > As for how to run if you've opened a console (shell [bash]) window, > the way to run a script is to type > > python <path/name/to/your/script>.py <any command line arguments> Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
