On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > >> This I do not. What is 'Python GUI'? What is 'Python Shell'? > > Those are (part of) the names of menu entries created by the Python > installer for MS Windows. I am not sure exactly what programs they > invoke.
The above reply was cross-posted from the following thread on python-list: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-January/thread.html#665549 The Windows start menu has a shortcut for "IDLE (Python GUI)" that runs the idle.pyw script. The file extension .pyw is associated with either pythonw.exe or the launcher pyw.exe, which are both linked as GUI programs. That means the process is created without an attached console (one can be allocated or attached later using Windows API calls). idle.pyw imports idlelib.PyShell and calls its `main`. The shell itself is implemented by the PyShell class, for which the window title is "Python " + platform.python_version() + " Shell" http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c3896275c0f6/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py#l829 Also, the editor window's run menu has a "Python Shell" item: ('run', [('Python Shell', '<<open-python-shell>>')]) http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c3896275c0f6/Lib/idlelib/Bindings.py#l59 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
