On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The graphical window that you describe is called cmd.exe and it is the > standard "terminal emulator" for Windows.
Oscar, cmd doesn't create or manage the console window. That's done by another process that acts as the console server (conhost, or csrss in older versions). cmd is just a command-line shell. When you run another program in cmd, like python.exe, the shell's thread just waits for the child process to exit. The child process inherits the console and standard I/O handles for talking to the console server. If you run python.exe from Explorer, Windows creates a new console window since the executable is marked as a console application. On Windows 7 (NT 6.1) it creates 2 processes: python.exe and conhost.exe. cmd.exe isn't in the loop. > Now here's what happens if I just type "py" to enter the Python console: Note that py.exe is installed by Python 3.3. If you haven't installed 3.3, you can download the launcher from the project site: https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
