Hiding console with program compiled in PY2EXE

[Pieter Claerhout]

Specify the -windows option in the py2exe command line. Example:

python setup.py py2exe --windows

By default, if the script ends with .pyw, it will create a console-less GUI
app. If it ends with .py, it will create a console application. By using the
--console or --windows flags, you can control this behaviour.

What I normally do to freeze a program this way is the following:

1. I create an executable using the --console option.

2. Run it on a computer that doesn't have Python installed to make sure
every required part is present. If not, adjust and go back to step 1.

3. After the program is working fine, I run py2exe using the --windows
option to create the console-less GUI app.

4. Test it again.

It might be handy to wrap the main function of your application in a
try/except statement and redirect the traceback to a file so that you know
what went wrong if you run the application without the console window.

Cheers,


pieter


-----Original Message-----
From: mnations at airmail.net [mailto:mnations at airmail.net] 
Sent: 19 December 2003 07:34
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Hiding console with program compiled in PY2EXE


Hi all,

I know that to hide a console normally you simply change the extension
from .py to .pyw. That's simple enough. However I can't seem to
accomplish the same thing after freezing the program. I've tried
building the setup file with the python script as a .pyw file, but it
crashes and doesn't give me a reason. This is of course because the
debug window doesn't open, so you don't know what happened (ahh, the
irony).

Does anyone know how to successfully freeze a program with py2exe?

Many thanks,
Marc
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