BUG pythonw vs subprocess

[Robin Becker]

John J. Lee wrote:
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
> 
> 
>>I thought pythonw didn't provide a console and so it could be that
>>stdin and stdout aren't connected to anything.  Popen therefore doesn't
>>make sense.  You have to use sockets or something.
> 
> 
> Yeah... I don't know about module subprocess, but I recall there's a
> known bug where pythonw actually crashes on win9x when you write to
> sys.stdout, since it's not connected to anything...
> 
> 
> John
So then it's not possible to get pythonw apps eg tkinter guis to use 
subprocess properly? Seems a bit daft to me.

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Robin Becker