py2exe 0.6.1 released

[Thomas Heller]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:

> If you have a place in the program where output should never happen
> except when you would want a console window to see it in, you can
> call AllocConsole [1] safely even in multiple such places, just before
> the printing, and the first such call will create the console and hook
> up stdout and stderr ready to print. Subsequent calls to AllocConsole
> are effectively ignored, so all the output goes to the same console
> no matter which code section executed first. IMO this should be
> built into at least the windows wpython to trigger at the first
> attempt at stdout or stderr output. There could be an option to
> override that default and thus ignore stdout/stderr output, but I
> think it would be a useful default. Plus it would tell people early
> that they had usesless prints going in their wpython programs.
>

IMO that would be a nice addition to pythonw.exe, but I have no time to
care about this myself.  For py2exe, I'm still unsure how debugging
output from a frozen gui program should be handled.

Thomas