[Python-Dev] Re: Console vs. GUI applications (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Sep 9 11:49:57 CEST 2004

Michael Walter wrote:

I guessed CMD.EXE would run ShellExecute(), to which you can pass a filename such as "foo.py". Didn't verify this tho :)

dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Shell

dumpbin /imports \windows\system32\cmd.exe | grep Create 7C81E968 4A CreateDirectoryW 7C802332 66 CreateProcessW 7C810976 52 CreateFileW

(I doubt ShellExecute gives cmd.exe the control it needs. besides, ShellExecute is part of the shell layer, not the core Windows API. and the shell layer depends on everyone and his brother; I doubt they want the command line interface to depend on the GDI layer, RPC services, etc.)

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