>> But really I was hoping someone could explain *why* there is a >> difference. If PATHEXT can detect that intest.py needs to be run >> through Python why doesn't redirection work as expected? What >> is happening to stdin/stdout in this case? > > Alas, only Microsoft could explain this, and AFAIK they never really >have. It's not unique to Python, of course. Here's a confused MS >article about it: > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321788
The timbot thus spoke. And if you don't know Tim then I guess I can feel slightly better about never having come across this bizarre "feature" before. :-) Thanks for the link. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
