[Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13-apr-2006, at 8:33, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> Just for fun, what's the point of the execve?  Just to choose the
>> right Python executable?
>
> Never mind, I found it on Bob's blog.  It's to get around the
> requirement to have an app bundle if you want to draw on the screen,
> apparently.

That's right.

Note that this functionality won't be changed, we could pick between
having pythonw, which confuses all users, and this functionality, which
confuses gdb users. Having less confusing for "normal" users is better.

Ronald

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