Question

Long story short: pythonw.exe does nothing, python.exe accepts nothing (which one should I use?)

test.py:

print "a"

CMD window:

C:\path>pythonw.exe test.py
<BLANK LINE>
C:\path>

C:\path>python.exe test.py
  File "C:\path\test.py", line 7
    print "a"
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

C:\path>

Please tell me what I’m doing terrible wrong.

Answer 1

If you don’t want a terminal window to pop up when you run your program, use pythonw.exe;
Otherwise, use python.exe

Regarding the syntax error: print is now a function in 3.x
So use instead:

print("a")