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Subject: Re: Executing Python Scripts on Mac using Python Launcher
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:12:54 +0200, Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 26/06/12 21:51:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:19:45 -0700 (PDT), David Thomas
> > <dthomas86@me.com> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> > 
> > 
> >> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/ilbqt
> > 
> > 	That's an interesting configuration...
> > 
> > 	"pythonw.exe" is a version of the Python interpreter designed to NOT
> > OPEN a console -- so you've got a configuration saying "open a console
> > to run a no-console interpreter".
> 
> That's on Windows; on the Mac python and pythonw are identical.
> In fact, they're hard links to the same file.

	Okay, but...

	It may still be cleaner (to non-Mac users) if the execution
preferences still kept the "use terminal" to the python.exe, and left
"pythonw.exe" to "no terminal" applications <G>

	Even if the same executable is used in the end...

> 
> You may want to check "allow #! to override", though.
> 
> I mean, if there is a #! in a file pointing to a specific version of
> python, then it's probably there for a reason.  For example, the script
> might use a third party module installed only in that Python install.
>
	While I knew what that option meant, I didn't mention it myself as
the OP probably (based on the nature of the questions) wouldn't
understand the meaning... (And, on Windows at least, #! lines don't do
anything <G>)
 
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