[Pythonmac-SIG] pythonw

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 12:34, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:35:10 -0500, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
>> For running your own scripts and playing around in the terminal, just
>> use pythonw all the time.  There is a very slight increase in start-up
>> time, but nothing worth caring about.
>>
>
> OK, so if I replace the symbolic link from /usr/bin/python to
> /usr/bin/python2.3 with a link to /usr/bin/pythonw2.3, nothing bad
> will happen? I dont envision a scenario for me ever having to use
> python2.3 ever again, if this is true.

I think that will break #! scripts that don't use env, because pythonw 
is a shell script not an executable.

-bob