[Pythonmac-SIG] more on PythonLauncher

Kevin Altis altis@semi-retired.com
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:14:45 -0800


Another reason for PythonLauncher to simply default to using pythonw, is
that PythonLauncher has no purpose except in the context of the Finder,
right? Do tkinter scripts require pythonw? How about PyObjC? In other words,
do we have Python scripts that it makes sense to run from the Finder that
aren't GUI scripts that require pythonw?

Is PythonLauncher ever relevant to command-line scripts or CGI scripts?
Would the user run scripts that use something like curses or readline for
interactive input from the Finder; wouldn't they just use the Terminal? And
again, if pythonw was used to run those types of scripts, what would the
downside be?

ka