basic tkinter/Windows question

[Martin Franklin]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> I find myself having to write some code on Windows :-(.  To alleviate
> the pain, at least I get to use Python for some of it.
> 
> I'm trying to write a simple application, say "eggs.py".  It pops a
> tkinter gui and lets the user do some stuff.  The system has Python
> installed so I don't care about wrapping it in a .exe file or anything
> like that.  But I'd like to make a desktop icon for eggs.py and let the
> user double-click it and run the app without also getting a DOS box on
> the screen.
> 
> Is there a simple way to do that?  I didn't see anything in the Python
> docs about it.  I suspect that this is really a dumb Windows question,
> but I avoid Windows whenever I can, so most anything I can ask about it
> is probably dumb.
> 
> Thanks much.

renaming the eggs.py to eggs.pyw will tell windows to use pythonw.exe
to start this python file (and will not open a console)  You can then
create a shortcut in the normal way

Martin