On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:46:28 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Why would you want both CLI and GUI functions in one program?
An obvious example was the one which was being discussed, i.e. the Python interpreter. Depending upon the "script", it may need to behave as a command-line utility (read argv, do stuff, exit), a terminal-based interactive program, a GUI program, a network server, or whatever. Forcing a program to choose between the two means that we need both python.exe and pythonw.exe. A less obvious example is a program designed to use whatever interface facilities are available. E.g. XEmacs can use either a terminal or a GUI or both. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
