Re: Python 2.4 on Windows XP

From: It's me (itsme_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:29:31 GMT

Thanks, Jeff.

That works.

"Jeff Shannon" <jeff@ccvcorp.com> wrote in message
news:10ton02dur41v0b@corp.supernews.com...
> It's me wrote:
>
> > In my case, there is *no* error message of any kind. When I run
pythonw.exe
> > from the python23 directory, the screen blinked slightly and goes back
to
> > the command prompt.
>
> Right -- pythonw.exe is a console-less interpreter. Having no
> console, it doesn't have an interactive mode, and since you didn't
> give it a script to run, it simply started, found nothing to do, and
> then terminated itself.
>
> You need to run idle.pyw, *not* pythonw.exe. The idle.pyw script runs
> inside the pythonw.exe interpreter, but the latter can't do anything
> without instructions.
>
> Jeff Shannon
> Technician/Programmer
> Credit International
>

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