Severe mac/python question

September 18, 2009 8:34 PM

So I was fiddling with commands in the python interpreter via the Terminal. I ran this basically, and was messing with the help system. fileHandle = open ( 'test.txt', 'w' ) ; fileHandle.write (' asdasd^3 '); fileHandle.close(); And all of a sudden this application opened. Python shell is it's name, it has no icon. WTF is going on?
posted by emptyinside to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

What version of OS X are you using? On Snow Leopard I only get the expected behavior. Can you close the application? If not, what about Force Quit?
posted by jedicus at 8:47 PM on September 18, 2009

Is the X11 icon showing?

How exactly did you run this from the terminal?

Are you using macports version of python or the builtin OSX version or something else?
posted by TravellingDen at 8:55 PM on September 18, 2009

Response by poster: @TravellingDen, I might be using the macports version. No X11. Not exactly sure how it ran. I was inside the python interpreter that gets run when you type 'python' into Terminal.

Did it again, typed 'help modules spam'...

On Tiger if it makes a difference. I'm not worried about it, I'm just curious wtf is going on, b/c i consider myself fairly literate, and this is unexpected behavior.
posted by emptyinside at 11:42 PM on September 18, 2009