[Python-Dev] Re: Console vs. GUI applications

Michael Walter michael.walter at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 11:53:10 CEST 2004


Ah, I see.

Thanks,
Michael

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:49:57 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Michael Walter wrote:
> 
> > I guessed CMD.EXE would run ShellExecute(), to which you can pass a
> > filename such as "foo.py". Didn't verify this tho :)
> 
> > dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Shell
> 
> > dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Create
>       7C81E968    4A  CreateDirectoryW
>       7C802332    66  CreateProcessW
>       7C810976    52  CreateFileW
> 
> (I doubt ShellExecute gives cmd.exe the control it needs.  besides, ShellExecute
> is part of the shell layer, not the core Windows API.  and the shell layer depends
> on everyone and his brother; I doubt they want the command line interface to
> depend on the GDI layer, RPC services, etc.)
> 
> </F> 
> 
> 
> 
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