[Pythonmac-SIG] pythonw question

[gohaku]

I installed python23 through fink and copied:
cp /sw/bin/python2.3 /sw/bin/python

I noticed that pythonw and python import the same files:
warnings.pyc, linecache.pyc,...

anyway, will I experience any problems with the following command?
%cp /sw/bin/python2.3 /sw/bin/python

Thanks again.
-gohaku
On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
> Are you sure this is indeed the case? Because normally you would have 
> one of two situations:
> - If you're running 10.2 (Panther) you'd have only /usr/bin/python, 
> which would be 2.2
> - If you're running 10.3 (Jaguar) you'd have both /usr/bin/python and 
> /usr/bin/pythonw, and they would both be 2.3.
>
> If you indeed have the situation you sketch you've installed something 
> into /usr/bin yourself, which is probably not a good idea.
>
>> Other than running wxPython apps with pythonw, I would like to know
>> what the difference between python and pythonw is and
>> if I overwrite /usr/bin/python with /usr/bin/python, will I 
>> experience any problems?
>
> The difference is that "python" cannot access the GUI, and "pythonw" 
> can. There is a very small performance disadvantage to using "pythonw" 
> (it's a shellscript that runs the "real" windowing interpreter), but 
> only during startup. I can't think of any real problems that could be 
> caused by always using pythonw, but I think you should really fix the 
> real problem (that the two seem to refer to different Python 
> versions).
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
> Goldman
>