Hello everybody, I have recently started tinkering about with Python.
If there are any Macintosh-based Python developers reading this newsgroup I would like to ask them one Macintosh-specific question: If you want to write GUI scripts on the Mac, say with Tkinter, you need to invoke "pythonw" instead of "python" and use "#! /usr/bin/pythonw" for a shebang line in your saved scripts. Of course, although a tiny problem, it is still less than welcome for cross-platform development. As one obvious workaround, would it cause any problems if I would link "/usr/bin/python/" to "/usr/bin/pythonw" instead of "/usr/bin/python2.3" (in other words I would always be using "pythonw", even for non-GUI scripts) ? So far I can't tell any difference in the interactive mode - invoking "pythonw" for non-GUI work seems to work just fine. I am not sure though if there are any system processes, say during boot-up, that depend on "python" pointing to the original location, or if there could be problems with more complex code than "Hello world". Any insights welcome Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list