Articles tagged with "ms-windows"

1. Python & standard output redirection on ms-windows

   Redirecting standard output of the Python script on ms-windows can cause strange crashes because of encoding differences.

2. Command-line versus GUI program

   TL;DR

   When you are exploring a problem, in general first write a command-line program whenever possible.

   It will take less effort to write then a full-blown GUI.

   Introduction

   Recently I wrote a program to remove the protection from ms-excel files.

   The original version was written as a command-line program. Later I re-used the relevant code for a GUI program for use on ms-windows. This was mainly for the benefit of some colleagues who are not comfortable with using the command-line.

   In this article I want to contrast the two programs.