On 14 August 2013 18:46, PJ Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

Shouldn't naming the file .pyw already work today for that case?
Certainly, the .pyw extension is already suitable for manually
creating GUI scripts in a text editor. Unless there's something
special about how the 'pythonw' executable processes the command line,
it should work just as well for a zipped archive.

.pyw files can be imported as modules, just like .py, so you hit the issue of scripts named the same as modules that they import. Naming a zipped archive .pyw is no better or worse than naming it .py - both work most of the time, but are disconcerting to users who think the filetype implies "text" and both have the problems associated with being both executable and importable.

Paul.