Unix-head needs to Windows-ize his Python script (II)

Sat Oct 23 22:43:19 EDT 2010

In message
<mailman.154.1287832721.2218.python-list at python.org>, Dave Angel wrote:

> Presumably the original pythonw.exe was called that because it's marked
> as a windows-app. In win-speak, that means it has a gui. Applications
> that are not so-marked are console-apps, and get a console created if
> they weren't already started from one. That's where stdin/stdout/stderr
> get pointed.

Which is completely backwards, isn’t it?