os.popen3() - how to close cmd window automatically?

[Rony Steelandt]

> Dear Python developers,
>
> I use a short python script in order to run an external application plus to 
> open a browser displaying a default page.
>
> My Setup: Python 2.4.3. / Windows2000
>
> # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Script "shortcut.py"
> import os
> import webbrowser
> import win32api
>
> # open default web browser and display webbpage
> page = 'C:\\Temp\\Welcome.html'
> webbrowser.open(page)
>
> # path to application that is opened
> path = "C:\\Program Files\\ExternalApplication.exe"
>
> # get short name
> shortpath = win32api.GetShortPathName(path)
>
> # open external application
> stdin, stdout, stderr = os.popen3(shortpath)
> output = stdout.read()
> errors = stderr.read()
> stdin.close()
> stdout.close()
> stderr.close()
> print output
> print errors
> # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> In order to make this Script available on other Windows2000 machines where no 
> Python installation is present, I made this script executable using "py2exe" 
> (http://www.py2exe.org/). This creates a "shortcut.exe" file.
> If I run "shortcut.exe" everything works fine but a black empty cmd window 
> opens and its kept open until I close the application 
> "ExternalApplication.exe".
> How can I close that black empty window automatically?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>    Nico

replace console=[... by windows=[... in your setup.py

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