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

[Garth]

use depends.exe to open cmd.exe

It delay loads shell32.dll and uses the functions ShellExecuteExW and 
SHChangeNotify so it may use them.

Garth

Michael Walter wrote:

>Ah, I see.
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>Thanks,
>Michael
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>On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:49:57 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
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>>Michael Walter wrote:
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>>>I guessed CMD.EXE would run ShellExecute(), to which you can pass a
>>>filename such as "foo.py". Didn't verify this tho :)
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>>>dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Shell
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>>>dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Create
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>>      7C81E968    4A  CreateDirectoryW
>>      7C802332    66  CreateProcessW
>>      7C810976    52  CreateFileW
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>>(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.)
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