[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Feb 9 19:52:09 CET 2006


> "pythonw" invokes GUI applications, "python" invokes console
> applications. When installing an extension, I don't type "pythonw
> setup.py install."

But you could.

No, my conceptual problem is just that you shouldn't need that extra
"w", and once you start explaining why it's there, there's no good
place to stop.  You start bushwhacking into a thicket of MacPython
complexity which scares people away.

Bill


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