[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm fairly sure support for .pyw, or rather a separate python executable, was introduced in the MacOSX port. In particular, we started out with two different executables "python" and "pythonw" where the first was the regular python executable, while the

[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the PR. I believe there also used to be a distinction between .py and .pyw files back in the distant past of classic MacOS (9 and earlier) and limited support for .pyw was carried over into Mac OS X (10). But most of the references to .pyw for macOS

[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

Erlend Egeberg Aasland added the comment: I might have missed something, but I thought .pyw files were a Windows specific thing. -- nosy: +erlendaasland ___ Python tracker

[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

Change by Cheryl Sabella : -- versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

Change by Jiongjiong Gao : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +12600 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue36516] Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly.

New submission from Jiongjiong Gao : In Python Launcher Preferences there are two settings for file type, Python Script and Python GUI Script. But Python Launcher can not recognize pyw file as Python GUI Script file type correctly. -- components: macOS messages: 339380 nosy: gjj2828,