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<p>Hi Christopher,</p>
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<p> You could try calling pythonw.exe instead of python.exe. This should run python without a command prompt.</p>
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<p>Bruce.</p>
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<p>Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 11:13:59 PM, you wrote:</p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>CG> Hello all,</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>CG> I am in the process of creating a .msi that installs a couple of </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> packages by extracting the .egg files to a directory and then running a</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> python script that installs easy_install, if it's not already there, and</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> then uses easy_install to install the packages. I have everything setup</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> except that when I call python.exe to run my script, I do not want a </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> command prompt window to appear. Does anyone know how to tell the msi</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> installer to not open a command prompt window for a call to python.exe,</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>CG> or any executable for that matter?</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>CG> Thank you for your time.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>CG> -- Chris Galvan</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>CG> _______________________________________________</span></p>
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<p><a class=rvts7 href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32">CG> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32</a></p>
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<p><span class=rvts8>-- </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts8>Best regards,</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts8> Bruce </span><a class=rvts9 href="mailto:bruce@blazertech.net">mailto:bruce@blazertech.net</a></p>
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