basic tkinter/Windows question

[Vincent Wehren]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> I find myself having to write some code on Windows :-(.  To alleviate
> the pain, at least I get to use Python for some of it.
> 
> I'm trying to write a simple application, say "eggs.py".  It pops a
> tkinter gui and lets the user do some stuff.  The system has Python
> installed so I don't care about wrapping it in a .exe file or anything
> like that.  But I'd like to make a desktop icon for eggs.py and let the
> user double-click it and run the app without also getting a DOS box on
> the screen.

Rename the file "eggs.py" to "eggs.pyw" and create a shortcut to that 
file. The file will be opened using pythonw.exe instead of python.exe.

--
Vincent Wehren


> 
> Is there a simple way to do that?  I didn't see anything in the Python
> docs about it.  I suspect that this is really a dumb Windows question,
> but I avoid Windows whenever I can, so most anything I can ask about it
> is probably dumb.
> 
> Thanks much.