Ah, so it has to do with access to the window manager. That answers a
lot, thanks.
On Mar 31, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Max Noel wrote:
On Apr 1, 2005, at 00:14, Mike Hall wrote:
On Mar 31, 2005, at 12:21 AM, Max Noel wrote:
It's been too long since I used Python on MacOSX, but IIRC you
can't just run a Python GUI program from the shell. Or something
like that...you should ask this one on the python-mac SIG mailing
list:
http://www.python.org/sigs/pythonmac-sig/
Kent
You have to launch your script with pythonw, not with python.
I'm unclear on why a command like webbrowser.open() will comfortably
launch your default web browser (in my case Safari), but something as
ubiquitous to an OS as a file browser has special needs to launch.
Perhaps each application has custom written their file browser, and
I'm assuming they are each essentially doing system calls to the same
thing...?
No, the reason for that, IIRC, is that for the program to be able to
interact with the window manager, it has to be launched with pythonw.
When the program starts to display stuff elsewhere than in STDOUT or
STDERR, an application launch is somehow triggered (icon appears in
the Dock), which for some reason enables the user to interact with the
program.
Launching a web browser requires no interaction whatsoever with the
WM, and can therefore be done with python.
Yes, the python/pythonw distinction in Mac OS X is stupid, I'll give
you that. I don't even know why it exists in the first place.
-- Max
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