pythonw.exe doesn't work

Christian Tismer tismer at appliedbiometrics.com
Tue Apr 20 16:45:44 EDT 1999


Ken Power wrote:
> 
>         Another windows problem. Python scripts won't run on my system
> (when I do the double-click scenario). I'm using Python 1.5.2 on
> win95b. The .py and .pyw extension is associated with pythonw.exe, but
> they don't appear to work. Also, double-clicking pythonw.exe doesn't
> accomplish anyhting. Any clues, hints?

The association of Pythonw.exe with the .py extension is wrong.
Pythonw is a Python without a console, so it most probably
does what it should do: execute a script and vanish.

You should change the .py association back to python.exe .
Pythonw is there for running COM server processes, applications
which create their own windows, and so on.

ciao - chris

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