[python-win32] clicking pyw file gives me a console

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/01/2014 15:16, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 06/01/2014 16:59, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> As the subject :(  It only happens if I've a shebang line at the top of
>> the file, remove that and the file is launched without the console.  If
>> I add a w to the end of python on the shebang line I get a dialog box
>> "Python launcher is sorry to say ...  Invalid version specification:
>> 'w'"  I've 2.7, 3.3 and now the latest version of 3.4 installed on
>> Windows 7.  How do I go about debugging this?  Section 3.4.1.3. of the
>> "Using Python on Windows" docs simply state "The launcher should have
>> been associated with Python files (i.e. .py, .pyw, .pyc, .pyo files)
>> when it was installed".
>>
>> Below are the file types and associations which look fine to me.
>>
>> Python.CompiledFile="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*
>> Python.File="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*
>> Python.NoConFile="C:\Windows\pyw.exe" "%1" %*
>>
>> .py=Python.File
>> .pyc=Python.CompiledFile
>> .pyo=Python.CompiledFile
>> .pyw=Python.NoConFile
>
> Mark -- does this happen only if you double-click or also if you run the
> file from the command line? By that I mean somthing like:
>
> c:\users\tim> myfile.py
>
> I ask because the Shell/Explorer (the program handling the double-click)
> has its own association mechanism. Usually it matches the settings you
> list above, but it doesn't have to.
>
>
> TJG

Just tried again and working perfectly, please don't ask.  Thinking 
about it I have been un- and re-installing 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 so could 
well have caused some kind of problem there.  Sorry about the noise :(

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Mark Lawrence