[Pythonmac-SIG] question about how 2.3 GUI apps will work

[Jack Jansen]

On zaterdag, maa 1, 2003, at 01:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Andrew Straw wrote:

> Hi fellow Mac and Python philes:
>
> I have recently been using Robin Dunn's Python 2.3a1 distribution with 
> Tkinter and recently downloaded Tcl and Tk frameworks (from the tcl 
> project download page).  I have been very impressed with increase in 
> ease of use in most regards since Python 2.2.  (Thanks *heaps* to Jack 
> and everyone else!)
>
> There is one question I have, which I think went around the mailing 
> list a few weeks back, but I didn't get the final result.  (Possibly 
> because I just got lazy and didn't follow the thread, but I'm not 
> actually sure if there was a final answer then, and it may have 
> changed.)
>
> What happens when you double-click a .py file that has Tkinter stuff 
> (i.e. open it with PythonLauncher)?

In 2.3a2 this will work, i.e. you won't get the 606 error. In 2.3a1 
this is also easy to fix: set the PythonLauncher preference for ".py" 
files to use "pythonw" in stead of the default "python". In 2.3a2 this 
is the default.
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