June 21, 1999
3:44 p.m.
Some years ago in the Perl world, they solved this by making regular old perl.exe not expand wildcards on Windows, but also supplying perlglob.exe which did.
This seems a reasonable way out. Just like we have pythonw.exe, we could add pythong.exe and pythongw.exe (or pythonwg.exe?). I guess it's time for a README.txt file to be installed explaining all the different executables... By default the g versions would not be used unless invoked explicitly. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)