How to stop Python closing immediately when executed in Microsoft Windows

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I have just started college and we are going to be using python  We really have done nothing so I have downloaded the program and done some print commands  and that s it   When I run my  py file  a print command  it immediately closes after appearing  I understand why it does this - it s given the output  so it s done what it needs to do - but I also understand that you can stop this from happening   I looked around this website and none of the solutions given to this question worked  either that or I didn t understand them   Is there a simple command I can input to my IDLE editor that will put the program on hold or something  I have tried input  prompt     as suggested by someone  and that made no difference   If there isn t a command for this  is there a way to change the settings on the computer so that programs don t auto close

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Late in here  but in case someone comes here from google--- Go to the location of your  py file  Press SHIFT then right click anywhere and choose open command prompt from here  Once it s up  Just add  quot python NameOfTheProg py quot  to the cmd line

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The only thing that worked for me -i command line argument   Just put all your python code inside a  py file and then run the following command   python -i script py   It means that if you set -i variable and run your module then python doesn t exit on SystemExit   Read more at the this link

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In Python 3  add the following to the end of your code   input  Press ENTER to exit     This will cause the program to wait for user input  with pressing ENTER causing the program to finish   You can double click on your script py file in Windows conveniently this way

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Well I got similar issue   It is solved by adding Environment Variable   Add System Variables in Window  Name     PYTHONPATH  Value   C  Python27    Your Python path

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Open your cmd  command prompt  and run Python commmands from there    on Windows go to run or search and type cmd  It should look like this   python yourprogram py    This will execute your code in cmd and it will be left open  However to use python command  Python has to be properly installed so cmd recognizes it as a command  Checkout proper installation and variable registration for your OS if this does not happen

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I know a simple answer  Open your cmd  the type in  cd C  directory your file is in and then type python your progam py

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Run the command using the windows command prompt from your main Python library source  Example   C  Python27 python exe directoryToFile yourprogram py

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Very simple    Open command prompt as an administrator  Type python exe  provided you have given path of it in environmental variables    Then  In the same command prompt window the python interpreter will start with  gt  gt  gt   This worked for me

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I think I am too late to answer this question but anyways here goes nothing   I have run in to the same problem before and I think there are two alternative solutions you can choose from    using sleep  sometime    from time import    sleep 10    using a prompt message  note that I am using python 2 7    exit now   raw input  Do you like to exit now  Y es  N o         if exit now lower      n     more processing here  Alternatively you can use a hybrid of those two methods as well where you can prompt for a message and use sleep sometime  to delay the window closing as well  choice is yours   please note the above are just ideas and if you want to use any of those in practice you might have to think about your application logic a bit

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The reason why it is closing is because the program is not running anymore  simply add any sort of loop or input to fix this  or you could just run it through idle

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Put   input  Press ENTER to exit      at the end to have it stop

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In Python 2 7 adding this to the end of my py file  if   name         main      works   closeInput   raw input  Press ENTER to exit   print  Closing

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Depending on what I m using it for  or if I m doing something that others will use  I typically just input  Do eighteen backflips to continue   if it s just for me  if others will be using I just create a batch file and pause it after  cd   file path here  python yourfile py pause    I use the above if there is going to be files renamed  moved  copied  etc  and my cmd needs to be in the particular folder for things to fall where I want them  otherwise - just    python   path to file yourfile py  pause

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Just add an line of code in idle  quot input   quot

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If you just want a delay   from time import    sleep 20

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I couldn t find anywhere on the internet a true non-script specific  double click and the window doesn t close solution   I guess I m too lazy to drag and drop or type when I don t need to so after some experimentation I came up with a solution   The basic idea is to reassociate  py files so they run a separate initial script before running the intended script   The initial script launches a new command prompt window with the  k parameter which keeps the command prompt open after completion and runs your intended script in the new window   Maybe there are good reasons not to do this  those with more knowledge please comment if so  but I figure if I run into any it is easy to revert back if needed   One possibly undesirable side effect is dragging and dropping or typing and running from a command prompt now opens a second command prompt rather than running in the command prompt you dragged or typed in   Now  for the implementation  I call the initial python script python cmd k pyw   I m using Python 3 7   The code required may differ for other versions   Change the path C  Python37 python exe to the location of your python installation   Associate  pyw files to pythonw exe  not python exe  through Windows if they aren t already   import subprocess import sys   Run a python script in a new command prompt that does not close command    start cmd  k C  Python37 python exe      sys argv 1        subprocess run command  shell True    This runs every time you double click any  py script and launches a new command prompt to run the script you double clicked    Running through pythonw exe suppresses the command prompt window when this initial script runs   Otherwise if you run it through python exe an annoying blink of a command prompt appear as a result of the first window showing briefly each time   The intended script displays because the code in the initial script above runs the intended script with python exe   Now associate  py files with python exe  not pythonw exe  through Windows if they are not already and edit the registry entry for this association  Disclaimer  Always back up your registry before editing it if you are unsure of what you are doing    I do not know if there are different paths in the registry for file association for different versions of Windows but for me it is at   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Classes Applications python exe shell open command   Change the data to the pythonw exe path  not python exe  and add the path to the ptyhon script above and   1  as arguments    1  passes the full path of the doubled clicked file    For example if pythonw exe and python cmd k pyw are at C  Python37  then    C  Python37 pythonw exe   C  Python37 python cmd k pyw    1    It is not necessary to put python cmd k pyw in the same directory as pythonw exe as long as you provide the correct path for both   You can put these in  reg files for easy switching back and forth between using the script and the default behavior   Change the paths as needed in the examples below  location in the registry  your installation of python  the location you put your python cmd k pyw script    With ptyhon cmd k pyw  change paths as needed    Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Classes Applications python exe shell open command       C   Python37  pythonw exe     C   Python37  python cmd k pyw      1      Default version  change paths as needed    Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Classes Applications python exe shell open command       C   Python37  python exe      1

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