Hiding the DOS console on a console application on Windows

Bernard Yue bernie at 3captus.com
Fri Jan 25 19:15:23 EST 2002


Hi Eric,

If I understands you correctly, you have a python program (.py or .pyc) that
wants to run under windows without a console box popup when it first starts up.
If thats correct you can use pythonw.exe, instead of python.exe, in your startup
script. i.e.:

    c:\python21\bin\pythonw c:\myapp\myapp.py

Hope it helps!


Bernie

Eric Brunel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've got a problem for which we were unable to find a solution: we have an
> Windows application that communicates with a console application and that
> needs to occasionally send it a Ctrl-Break. The only way we found to do that
> was to use the Windows function "GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent" via an extension
> module. Problem: this function only works if the parent and child processes
> share the same console, so our application has to be run or built as a
> console application. That means a start-up script with a .py extension (no
> .pyw, or it doesn't work), or a build without the option suppressing the
> console (e.g., no '--noconsole' option with Gordon McMillan's installer).
> However, our application has a GUI of its own, and we need to get rid of the
> DOS console that opens automatically when our script is run. Does anybody
> know a means to hide this console? We understand that this window has to be
> created, but we just don't want to see it...
>
> Our application uses Python 2.1.1 with a Tkinter GUI under Windows2k.
>
> TIA
>  - eric -

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