How to run Python in Windows w/o popping a DOS box?

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Fri Apr 22 17:03:40 EDT 2005


pyguy2 at gmail.com writes:

> >This change is NOT a good idea!!
> I agree the .pyw shortcut method is better. However, if you are willing
> to lose
> stdin,stdout,stderr and really never want a console window to pop up, I
> do not see how it is a disasterous change. You can still run python.exe
> on your py files when you want  to test your code.
[...]

Under some Windows OSes (95/98/ME?) writing to stdout in a Windows app
(.pyw) can crash the Python interpreter.


John



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