[Pythoncard-users] Standalone PythonCard applications & no console

I'm still building Windows EXEs via the Mcmillan installer that I set-up 
quite a while ago (I'll get standaloneBuilder one of these days!) and I 
still use that old debugging technique, the print statement, all the time.

For some reason I had assumed that switching the standalone config file 
from console to no-console would make no difference if I left the print 
statements in place, i.e. the standard output would just get directed to 
NULL or something. However I just tracked down a problem I was having to 
the fact that with the console switched off but the printing still 
active my PythonCard app was stopping halfway through processing a 
button press and control returning to the event loop. The issue would 
not affect every PC the application was running on but when it happened 
it was always in the same place.

I presume printing to no console is therefore "a bad thing" and the 
standalone build mechanism isn't capable of redirecting standard output 
with no console - could anyone confirm this?

It also makes me wonder what happens to standard error output, e.g. 
exceptions. Traditionally they get reported to the console - in 
"non-console mode" could this also trigger issues (presumably in most 
cases the exception occurring in the first place is probably a bad sign, 
but sometimes you might be able to recover)? Do I need to make sure that 
any error output is blocked off as well or logged to a file?

I feel a bit of an idiot for taking so long to realize what now seems 
pretty obvious, but I just wanted to make sure I am now correct and that 
there isn't something else weird going on with my application and this 
standard output business is just a red herring.

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