Windows: setting title of console window
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Jul 30 13:23:40 EDT 2011
I came across question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6485678/ which
has to do with setting the console title from sitecustomize.py. With
some help from the folks on python-win32 (for the title portion ;) I
came up with this:
8<-- sitecustomize.py ---------------------------------
import sys
import time
from ctypes import windll
class SetTitle(object):
def __del__(self):
time.sleep(.1)
command = ' '.join(sys.argv)
windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA(command)
sys.argv = SetTitle()
8<-----------------------------------------------------
I have a good number of python scripts being called to perform work, and
even the GUI modules have a console window -- no, it's not very
polished, but it's internal use only and it make the occasional bug
easier to track.
Having the python script's name in the console window (which otherwise
just says something like 'c:\windows\cmd.exe') is quite nice.
Oh, and if you're using Python 3, change SetConsoleTitleA to
SetConsoleTitleW.
~Ethan~
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