Re: pythonw.exe

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: pythonw.exe
Date	2011-08-14 20:49 -0400
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On 8/14/2011 10:30 AM, Nobody wrote:

> The main use for pythonw.exe is if you write a GUI program in Python
> (using e.g. TkInter, wxPython, etc) and you want it to be able to run it
> from an icon (desktop, start menu) without it opening a console window
> (running a console executable from an icon will open a console window).

In particular, IDLE runs in a pythonw process and it executes user code 
in a separate pythonw process and usually uses a socket for the connection.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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    Re: pythonw.exe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-14 20:49 -0400

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