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

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.216.1287980107.2218.python-list at python.org>, Steve 
Holden wrote:

> and, in fact, the console is only a GUI window in a windowed system. It
> might be one of the console emulation windows that init starts under
> linux, or even a terminal connected to a computer by a serila line, for
> heavens sake.

But now you’re no longer talking about Windows. Windows is the only one that 
gets it backwards like this, forcing the creation of GUI elements for non-
GUI-based programs, and not for GUI-based ones.

More reasonably-designed systems, such as you describe above, make no such 
distinction between “GUI” and “non-GUI” programs. There is no difference 
based on the name of your executable, how it is built, or what libraries it 
links to; the only difference is in its run-time behaviour, whether it 
invokes any GUI functions or not.