[PythonCE] 2 issues with PythonCE
Guido Wesdorp
mailings at johnnydebris.net
Mon Nov 10 04:48:01 EST 2003
Hello there!
As you may have noticed I started using PythonCE a while ago ;) and
there are 2 things I noticed that I think can be improved (read:
opinions I have):
- It's not possible to run more than one Python interpreter at a given
time. I can understand that in certain situations (mainly if you just
want to use the interactive interpreter) if you click on the Python icon
in the start menu, you'd probably want the interpreter opened that you
were already working in, but in most cases the interactive interpreter
will not be called directly but instead by running a Python application.
Currently it is not possible to run two (completely different) Python
applications at the same time.
- When one runs a script, actually pcceshell.py is opened. This is
probably required to have some way of stdout, but for Windows
applications it's rather nasty to have a Python box in the
'background'... Wouldn't it be possible to have either a second
executable or some other main script like pcceshell (and then use some
command line switch or so to choose which one to use) which doesn't
create a window itself but just interprets a script, ignoring stdout
(and failing on stdin I guess)?
I'm not a C programmer at all, so even though I would love to try to
give it a go myself, I think I won't manage. I've browsed through some
of the source files and decided that C is just too cryptic for me ;) but
I think these modifications would be really cool...
Cheers,
Guido
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