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Bill Janssen wrote:

> 
> I'm conflicted about "pythonw".  On the one hand, this works for
> everything, whereas "python" doesn't.  On the other hand, why isn't
> this just what "python" invokes, and how do we explain that to people?
> Another example of the surface complexity of the MacPython
> infrastructure.
> 

"pythonw" invokes GUI applications, "python" invokes console
applications. When installing an extension, I don't type "pythonw
setup.py install."

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Kevin Walzer
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