Unix-head needs to Windows-ize his Python script (II)

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On 25/10/2010 02:19, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<mailman.187.1287916654.2218.python-list at python.org>, Dave Angel
> wrote:
>
>> On 2:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> In message
>>> <mailman.154.1287832721.2218.python-list at python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Presumably the original pythonw.exe was called that because it's marked
>>>> as a windows-app. In win-speak, that means it has a gui. Applications
>>>> that are not so-marked are console-apps, and get a console created if
>>>> they weren't already started from one. That's where stdin/stdout/stderr
>>>> get pointed.
>>>
>>> Which is completely backwards, isn’t it?
>>>
>> No. GUI programs are marked as win-app, so w stands for "Windows". Non
>> GUI programs run in the console.
>
> You mean “GUI console”. So non-GUI apps get a GUI element whether they want
> it or not, while GUI ones don’t. That’s completely backwards.

No, it's not. The fact that the console is also a GUI window is an
implementation detail: it happens to be displayed within a GUI
environment.