Pythonw.exe exits prematurely

Hello, I am running WinXP SP2 with Python 2.5.1 and encountered the following issue: I wrote a script that logs into my mail server, and checks for new messages every 20 seconds. When a new message is found, it displays a Windows tool tip and prints a line to console indicating a new message.

Re: Pythonw.exe exits prematurely

Hi Matt, Your reply is much appreciated. So let me see if I understand. When console is running, it dumps stdout to console, the buffer is flushed regularly, and everything is fine and dandy. But when running without console, the stdout buffer fills up because it has no physical handle to dump

Re: Pythonw.exe exits prematurely

The script has been running console-free for about an hour now without bailing. Looks like it was the stdout buffer. Thanks! Brian On Oct 23, 4:43 pm, Matimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running WinXP SP2 with Python 2.5.1 and encountered the following issue: I wrote a script that logs