Windows Spyder Shortcuts

[spyder-bot]

From redou...@gmail.com on 2013-02-08T13:33:34Z

Small polish issue on Windows. The shortcuts that start Spyder should call pythonw.exe, rather than python.exe. This way, we don't see the transient command shell that pops up between clicking the icon and the Spyder splash screen. http://stackoverflow.com/a/9706045

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1260

[spyder-bot]

From pierre.raybaut on 2013-02-10T04:54:41Z

I agree that seeing this flickering command window at startup may seem 'unprofessionnal'. However, note that this is necessary to avoid side effects of pythonw.exe implementation: this alternative executable without command window is not redirecting the standard input/output streams and that may be a problem in an IDE like Spyder which may be used to run programs in separate processes, hence loosing the I/O streams (no output in console).

See this post for more details: https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib/tree/browse_frm/month/2010-12/df9532490ab0eef9?rnum=11&lnk=ol

Status: WontFix