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Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?]

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On 2013-07-03 09:51, Tim Golden wrote:
> We can certainly agree on this. I can't count the number of emails
> I've deleted as too hot-headed in response to dismissive comments
> about Windows as a platform. Some of them, at least, appear to be
> from people who last actually used Windows back in the 9x days when
> the command window was very limited indeed.

I guess one of my biggest frustrations with the cmd.exe (and
command.com) interpreters is that argument processing is left to the
application, so each application may do it slightly differently:

  C:\temp\> find weather *.py
  FIND: Parameter format not correct
  C:\temp\> find "weather" *.py
  ---------- WFD.PY
  weather = Weather(lat, lon)
  C:\temp\> findstr weather *.py
  wfd.py: weather = Weather(lat, lon)
  C:\temp\> findstr "weather" *.py
  wfd.py: weather = Weather(lat, lon)

And more maddeningly:

  C:\temp\> start file.txt
  ... opens the file correctly in Notepad
  C:\temp\> start "file with space.txt"
  ... opens a new dos box with the name "file with space.txt" rather
      than opening the file
  C:\temp\> start "" "file with space.txt"
  ... opens the file correctly in Notepad

It's the little inconsistencies like this that wear daily on me.  That
and the lack of built-in utilities, so I'm regularly adding GNU tools
on new boxes.

-tkc

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How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? goldtech <leegold@operamail.com> - 2013-07-02 18:20 -0700
  Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? goldtech <leegold@operamail.com> - 2013-07-02 18:28 -0700
    Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-07-02 20:43 -0700
      Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Νίκος <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-07-03 18:22 +0300
        Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Νίκος <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-07-03 19:50 +0300
          Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-07-04 11:28 +1000
        Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-07-03 09:36 -0700
  Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-03 01:29 +0000
  Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ? Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 20:34 -0500
  DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-07-03 08:34 +0100
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-03 17:41 +1000
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-07-03 03:28 -0500
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-07-03 09:51 +0100
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-07-03 07:50 -0500
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2013-07-03 14:00 +0100
    Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-03 13:19 +0000
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Jeff Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> - 2013-07-03 09:22 -0400
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-07-03 18:11 -0400
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-07-03 17:35 -0600
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-07-04 09:08 -0500
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-07-04 17:12 -0500
      Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-05 08:39 +1000
  Re: DOS or not? [was Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-04 00:00 +1000

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