Comment 10 for bug 227449

C:\Python25\APP>python inkcl.py
** Message: Found local interpreter, 'C:\Program Files\Inkscape\python\pythonw.exe', Size: 24576

That's not really a problem, just the dumb behaviour of Inkscape under Win32 whenever it makes a call to python. It wants to fire up a command window just to say it's found the windows version of python every time, even when using the windows version of python (pythonw.exe), which is meant to run in quiet mode. That is the cause of the problem where the DOS prompt pops up briefly and disappears, but since you're running Inkscape from a command window anyway, it doesn't just pop up. This message should really divert to stderr or something similar, but someone with more programming ability than me will need to fix that.