click on my computer Then select tools->folder options->File Types scroll down the where the py extension is defined, highlight it, click on advanced then highlight open and hit the edit button.
There you should see python.exe with some other stuff, change it to pythonw.exe Then, in the future, if you click on a python program, it should use pythonw.exe The steps should be roughly similar on different versions of windows. I always liked the #! syntax of unix, too bad MS doesn't have it. And, too bad their command prompt sucks, too bad process creation is heavy, too bad . . . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list