On 2:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message
<mailman.154.1287832721.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:
Presumably the original pythonw.exe was called that because it's marked
as a windows-app. In win-speak, that means it has a gui. Applications
that are not so-marked are console-apps, and get a console created if
they weren't already started from one. That's where stdin/stdout/stderr
get pointed.
Which is completely backwards, isn’t it?
No. GUI programs are marked as win-app, so w stands for "Windows". Non
GUI programs run in the console. Non-gui programs came first, so that's
the type that doesn't need any tags. No event loop, no window handlers.
GUI programs are the exception.
DaveA
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