[Tutor] Python Image Library

[eryk sun]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Michael C
<mysecretrobotfactory at gmail.com> wrote:
> from PIL import Image
>
> im = Image.open('pic.bmp')
> im.show()
>
> I ran this code and it not only opened the picture in paint, which is what
> I want, but it also opens a CMD.exe console window! how do I prevent that from
> happening?

You're probably running a .py script that's associated with py.exe or
python.exe. These executables create a new console (i.e. an instance
of the console host process, conhost.exe), if they don't inherit one
from their parent process. The new console defaults to creating a
visible window. Change the file extension to .pyw. This file extension
should be associated with pyw.exe or pythonw.exe, which will not
create a console.

FYI, the cmd shell is unrelated to that console window. Windows users
often confuse the cmd shell with the console window that it uses. I
suppose it's less confusing on Linux. Like cmd, bash will inherit the
parent's terminal/console; however, it doesn't automatically spawn a
terminal on Linux if the parent doesn't have one. (Getting that
behavior on Windows requires the DETACHED_PROCESS creation flag.)
Since Windows users typically run cmd.exe to get a command-line shell
for running programs, they associate cmd.exe with the console window.
It isn't obvious that other programs create consoles without any
associated instance of cmd.exe.