Difference pythonw.exe / python.exe !

Alex Martelli aleax at aleax.it
Fri Sep 7 05:55:16 EDT 2001


"Robert Amesz" <reqhye72zux at mailexpire.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9114A7D647F2Arcamesz at 127.0.0.1...
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> For debugging purposes you might want to take a look at the SciTE
> editor (at www.scintilla.org, IIRC): when you run a python script from
> it (using F5) it uses pythonw.exe to lanch the script, but it *does*
> intercept any output from the program, and display it in the output
> window.
>
> That should allow you to find out what's going on, at least.

VERY good suggestion -- add in the fact that the stand-alone SciTE.Exe
is a 190K (yes, K, not M!-) download, being pre-compressed, and
you'll see you can hardly go wrong with SciTE.  What a jewel...!!!


Alex






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