Is it possible to make a program in Python that, when run, does not actually open any window (including command prompt)?
For example, opening the program would appear to do nothing, but in reality, the program is running in the background somewhere.
Thanks!
Are you running the python program by double clicking *.py file in Windows?
Then, rename the *.py file to *.pyw.
Run it with pythonw.exe instead of python.exe.
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I'm trying to run a python script from an elgato streamdeck, the code works properly but everytime i run it through my streamdeck it breifly opens a CMD window.
my goal is to run the script "silently"
I already changed the .py to a .pyw, which should run it without a window opening, but the problem seems to come from the elgato app
Any thoughts on how i could do that ?
runing my python script from a .bat file seems to have fix the issue, thx OneCricketeer :)
I made a Python GUI using Tkinter, but when I run it directly (double click the file) it opens the black python window but automatically closes by itself in less than half a second. I found a way to make it open the IDLE editor but it just opens the editor and doesn't run it.
I want it to run the way it runs when you open the IDLE editor and press Run Module. This runs it using Python Shell.
Is there a way I can make it automatically run using Python Shell?
Based on Mark Tolonen's comment you should do two things
rename your file to a .pyw from .py to prefer console-less runs
set your system to open .pyw files with pythonw if that's not configured already
Linux: configure xdg-open
Windows: right click and choose an application from the context menu (you may need to find where Python is installed to select the pythonw.exe executable)
Okay, one of the comments on the original question is correct.
As Terry Jan Reedy (user:722804) said,
It is possible that your mygui.py file is missing 'root.mainloop()' or the equivalent to start the GUI. IDLE lets you omit that during development so that one can interact with tkinter to retrieve values and make changes to widgets.
Adding gui.mainloop() to the end of my program worked.
I created a little application with Python3 and gtk glade, I'm using the terminal to see if I'm doing something wrong. However I want to launch the application without the terminal in the back at the end of the developement. So my question is, is there a way to do that?
You can change the file extension from .py to .pyw to make the Python script run without the terminal window. More on this here.
I want to hide the console window of a python program, so I change the file extensions to "pyw", but when I open it, the python IDLE show up even though I choose open it with "pythonw.exe"
If I use "pythonw test.py" in cmd, it works.
So I want to know what's wrong with this and how to solve this, thank you.
Change the program that opens python files.
Assuming you're using Windows, right click any python file (in your case any .pyw file, not .py), properties, change Opens with to pythonw instead of IDLE
For me, I had multiple version of Python installed that was causing issues. Once I had only had one version, I applied that pythonw.exe was the default for .pyw files and it worked.
I have a python script which I can run from pythonwin on which I give the arguments.
Is it possible to automate this so that when I just click on the *.py file, I don't see the script and it asks for the path in a dos window?
You're running on Windows, so you need an association between .py files and some binary to run them. Have a look at this post.
When you run "assoc .py", do you get Python.File? When you run "ftype Python.File", what do you get? If "ftype Python.File" points at some python.exe, your python script should run without any prompting.
Rename it to *.pyw to hide the console on execution in Windows.
You can also wrap it in a batch file, containing:
c:\path to python.exe c:\path to file.py
You can then also easily set an icon, run in window/run hidden etc on the batch file.
how does your script ask for or get its parameters? If it expects them from the call to the script (i.e. in sys.argv) and Pythonwin just notices that and prompts you for them (I think Pyscripter does something similar) you can either run it from a CMD window (commandline) where you can give the arguments as in
python myscript.py argument-1 argument-2
or modify your script to ask for the arguments itself instead (using a gui like Tkinter if you don't want to run from commandline).