How can I stop python exe from closing immediately after I get an output

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Is there any way I can stop python exe from closing immediately after it completes  It closes faster than I can read the output   Here is the program   width   float input  Enter the width      height   float input  Enter the height      area   width   height print  The area is   area   square units

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Auxiliary answer  Manoj Govindan s answer is correct but I saw that comment      Run it from the terminal    And got to thinking about why this is so not obvious to windows users and realized it s because CMD EXE is such a poor excuse for a shell that it should start with      Windows command interpreter copyright 1999 Microsoft   Mein Gott   Whatever you do  don t use this     C       Which leads me to point at https   stackoverflow com questions 913912 bash-shell-for-windows

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It looks like you are running something in Windows by double clicking on it  This will execute the program in a new window and close the window when it terminates  No wonder you cannot read the output   A better way to do this would be to switch to the command prompt  Navigate  cd  to the directory where the program is located and then call it using python  Something like this   C   gt  cd C  my programs  C  my programs  gt  python area py   Replace my programs with the actual location of your program and area py with the name of your python file

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Just declare a variable like k or m or any other you want  now just add this piece of code at the end of your program   k input  press close to exit      Here I just assumed k as variable to pause the program  you can use any variable you like

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In windows  if Python is installed into the default directory  For me it is    cd C  Python27   You then proceed to type    python exe   FULLPATH   name  py     to run your Python script in Command Prompt

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You can t - globally  i e  for every python program  And this is a good thing - Python is great for scripting  automating stuff   and scripts should be able to run without any user interaction at all   However  you can always ask for input at the end of your program  effectively keeping the program alive until you press return  Use input  prompt     in Python 3  or raw input  promt     in Python 2   Or get used to running your programs from the command line  i e  python mine py   the program will exit but its output remains visible

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Python files are executables  which means that you can run them directly from command prompt assuming you have windows   You should be able to just enter in the directory  and then run the program  Also   assuming you have python 3   you can write   input  Press enter to close program     and you can just press enter when you ve read your results

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For Windows Environments   If you don t want to go to the command prompt  or work in an environment where command prompt is restricted   I think the following solution is better than inserting code into python that asks you to press any key - because if the program crashes before it reaches that point  the window closes and you lose the crash info  The solution I use is to create a bat file   Use notepad to create a text file  In the file the contents will look something like   my python program py pause   Then save the file as  my python program bat   When you run the bat file it will run the python program and pause at the end to allow you to read the output  Then if you press any key it will close the window

[python] How can I stop python.exe from closing immediately after I get an output?

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