[Python-Dev] Install-on-first-use vs. optional extensions (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Sep 8 20:30:58 CEST 2004

Moore, Paul wrote:

With option (3), what happens if you run "launcher -console" from a command prompt? Does it produce output in the same console window, or does it launch a new console?

That was a problem originally, which I have now fixed into

(3') Install two binaries, extpy.exe, and extpyw.exe.

With that approach, what do you think?

If it's not, I'd like to see how you coded console.exe, as I've often needed this sort of behaviour, and never been able to achieve it correctly!

As I found, you can use AttachConsole in WXP, but that isn't a full solution, either (more like a Unix background process).

Regards, Martin

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