Hello so I'm kind of new with programming and I buildt a program with python and kivy. The issue is that I am using auto-py-to-exe to convert the py files to exe but when I do it, it doesn't work well. The primary issue is that a windows command prompt opens when I run the app and if I close it, the app closes too. The other problem is that I can't share the file to someone else so that they can run it in another computer, and what happens is that the same command prompt kind of appears but then closes and the app doesn't open at all. I would appreciate it if someone could help me to understand how I can debug it as I don't even understand the problem in the first place.
I have been looking online for other people with the same issues but I haven't find any answer that applied to my case.
Try to choose Window Based(hide the console) and it wil works
If you choose “Console Based,” the console will open after running the executable file, which is recommended if your script generates console-based outputs. However, if you don’t want to show the console outputs when running the executable file, choose “Window Based”
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Please i really need help.
I have this problem which i have been unable to solve.
I wrote some python gui script of which i want to create a win32 app from for portabilty(i.e not compel all my app user to download/install python) and to make my application close sourced.
I have decided to use/ tried using pyinstaller and py2exe but have always had this problem. My gui application shows up with a console window accompanining it.
I have tried several thing to prevent this but all were in vain. I tried changing the extension from .py to .pyw and repackaging but got same result.
Please i need help on how to avoid/override this. Thanks for you help in advance
Note: I use python 2.7.11 on a window 7 32bit system.
And please dont mark my question as duplicate in reference to questions like : Run Python script without Windows console appearing or How to hide console window in python? as my question is completely different.
Thanks for your help in advance.
I was able to get it working with pyinstaller by using the --no-console argument i.e by adding -w. Here is the syntax of my code.
pyinstaller -F -w my_script.py
where -F is to creates one file for standalone app i.e --onefile and -w is to disable console window i.e --no-console.
Thanks.
I have no idea if this problem has the solution I want but here goes.
I'm making a PyQt4 program that apparently needs the console window to run properly. However, whenever I activate another window, sending the program I'm working on to the back, the only way I can get back to it is by closing all the windows in front of said window. I can't just click on the taskbar because the only thing that comes back is the console window.
I'm curious. Is there a way to have the GUI window activate along with, or independent of, the console window without having to go through the annoying process of closing (minimizing) potentially all the rest of your windows?
Edit: I just realized my question is pretty vague. Let me elaborate.
I'm compiling said program using pyinstaller.
The reason it needs the console window to work properly (I have tried using the .pyw file as well, to no avail) is because there's another program that's the core of this one that prints out to it in a way I can only describe as violently.
Apparently it won't be happy unless it has the console to record it's outbursts.
That being said, I need the console window. However, as I mentioned before, that is the only thing that comes up when the pyinstaller icon is clicked.
There is a gui attached to the console, but there's no way to get it back even after the user would minimize it because the pyinstaller icon insists it doesn't exist.
Maybe it has something to do with how I defined the window while programming it, but I don't see why that would be the case. Is there something in particular pyinstaller doesn't like that would make it act like this?
How are you launching the PyQt application?
If you're launching it with the python executable, it will create a console.
python my_application.py
Instead, launch it with the GUI version of python -- pythonw:
pythonw my_application.py
If the python path isn't in the system path, you may need to specify the whole path to the executable:
C:\python27\pythonw.exe C:\path\to\my_application.py
I have a python script that runs the GUI which is coded using Tkinter.
Problem is when i run the script, there are 2 windows opened. One is the GUI and other is the black console window.
I need to integrate both the windows so that when I start the script only one window appears.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Rename your Python script as .pyw (not .pyc). This will tell the invoker to to instantiate a console window. Source
Note however, this will work for non-GUI based scripts too which can cause undesireqable behaviour - such as not being able to see your script.
(I am pretty sure there is a better way, but) one way is to change the .pyc object file extension to .pyw and the console will not appear when you launch your GUI using the .pyw file.
I am new to python programming and development. After much self study through online tutorials I have been able to make a GUI with wxpython. This GUI interacts with a access database in my computer to load list of teams and employees into the comboboxes.
Now my first question is while converting the whole program into a windows exe file can I also include the .accdb file with it...as in I only need to send the exe file to the users and not the database..if yes how.
My second question is... I actually tried converting the program into exe using the py2exe (excluding the database...am not sure how to do that) and I got the .exe file of my program into the "Dist" folder. But when I double click it to run it a black screen (cmd) appears for less than a second and disappears. Please help me understand the above issue and resolve it.
am not sure if I have a option of attaching files...then I could have attached my wxpython program for reference.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Premanshu
The console could possibly appear if you used the 'console' parameter to setup(). Switch to 'windows' instead if that is the case. Can't say for sure without seeing your setup.py script. Possibly your app could also be opening console, but again hard to say without seeing source. One thing to check is to make sure you are not printing anything to stdout or stderr. You might want to redirect all of stdout and stderr to your log just in case, and do this right at the top of your start script so that if some 3rd party import was writing to stdout you'd be able to capture that.
The db is not part of your executable, so py2exe will not do anything with it. However, you should probably package your application with an installer, and you can make the installer include the db and install it along with the executable.
I have a weird issue on a friends machine where when they run my script, it only flashes the command window when it hits a line that does something with os.system. It seems to not show the command window at all otherwise. Not showing is fine, but my script does a large process and it causes the window to flash a lot.
Normally on my machine, when I open the script (that launches a gui with tkinter) the command window will open as well in the back. This is what I am trying to get my friends to do, but I do not know what would cause the command window to not show. Is there a setting within python somewhere that doesn't show the command window (unless of course it needs to run a process in it)?
Edit: Ok I did a really lame hack to fix this. Apparently all he .py files got associated with pythonw. I was unable to get this association changed (even going through the command prompt ASSOC) So I just did a silly renamed of the pythonw to old_pythonw, and renamed the python.exe to pythonw.exe. Yes, really silly but no time to argue with windows about file associations.