How to keep a Python script output window open

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I have just started with Python  When I execute a python script file on Windows  the output window appears but instantaneously goes away  I need it to stay there so I can analyze my output  How can I keep it open

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You can just write input    at the end of your code therefore when you run you script it will wait for you to enter something  ENTER for example

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If you want to run your script from a desktop shortcut  right click your python file and select Send to Desktop  create shortcut   Then right click the shortcut and select Properties  On the Shortcut tab select the Target  text box and add cmd  k  in front of the path and click OK  The shortcut should now run your script without closing and you don t need the input  Hit enter to close    Note  if you have more than one version of python on your machine  add the name of the required python executable between cmd  k and the scipt path like this   cmd  k python3  C  Users  lt yourname gt  Documents your scipt py

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Using atexit  you can pause the program right when it exits  If an error exception is the reason for the exit  it will pause after printing the stacktrace   import atexit    Python 2 should use  raw input  instead of  input  atexit register input   Press Enter to continue        In my program  I put the call to atexit register in the except clause  so that it will only pause if something went wrong   if   name         main         try          something that may fail        except            Register the pause          import atexit         atexit register input   Press Enter to continue               raise   Reraise the exception

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A simple hack to keep the window open   counter   0  While  True        If  counter    0              Code goes here      counter    1   The counter is so the code won   t repeat itself

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You have a few options    Run the program from an already-open terminal  Open a command prompt and type   python myscript py   For that to work you need the python executable in your path  Just check on how to edit environment variables on Windows  and add C  PYTHON26  or whatever directory you installed python to    When the program ends  it ll drop you back to the cmd prompt instead of closing the window  Add code to wait at the end of your script  For Python2  adding      raw input         at the end of the script makes it wait for the Enter key  That method is annoying because you have to modify the script  and have to remember removing it when you re done  Specially annoying when testing other people s scripts   For Python3  use input    Use an editor that pauses for you  Some editors prepared for python will automatically pause for you after execution  Other editors allow you to configure the command line it uses to run your program  I find it particularly useful to configure it as  python -i myscript py  when running  That drops you to a python shell after the end of the program  with the program environment loaded  so you may further play with the variables and call functions and methods

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The simplest way   import time   Your code here time sleep 60   end of code  and console shut down    this will leave the code up for 1 minute then close it

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Start the script from already open cmd window or at the end of script add something like this  in Python 2    raw input  Press enter to exit        Or  in Python 3   input  Press enter to exit

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Create a Windows batch file with these 2 lines   python your-program py  pause

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In python 2 you can do it with  raw input     gt  gt print  Hello World         gt  gt raw input  Waiting a key        In python 3 you can do it with  input       gt  gt print  Hello world         gt  gt input  Waiting a key        Also  you can do it with the time sleep time    gt  gt import time  gt  gt print  The program will close in 5 seconds    gt  gt time sleep 5

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To keep your window open in case of exception  yet  while printing the exception   Python 2  if   name         main         try             your code  typically one function call     except Exception          import sys         print sys exc info   0          import traceback         print traceback format exc           print  Press Enter to continue               raw input      To keep the window open in any case   if   name         main         try             your code  typically one function call     except Exception          import sys         print sys exc info   0          import traceback         print traceback format exc       finally          print  Press Enter to continue               raw input     Python 3  For Python3 you ll have to use input   in place of raw input    and of course adapt the print statements   if   name         main         try             your code  typically one function call     except BaseException          import sys         print sys exc info   0           import traceback         print traceback format exc            print  Press Enter to continue               input      To keep the window open in any case   if   name         main         try             your code  typically one function call except BaseException      import sys     print sys exc info   0       import traceback     print traceback format exc    finally      print  Press Enter to continue           input

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cmd  k is the typical way to open any console application  not only Python  with a console window that will remain after the application closes  The easiest way I can think to do that  is to press Win R  type cmd  k and then drag amp drop the script you want to the Run dialog

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You can open PowerShell and type  python   After Python has been imported  you can copy paste the source code from your favourite text-editor to run the code   The window won t close

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On windows 10 insert at beggining this      usr bin env python   - - coding  utf-8 - -   Strange  but it work for me  Together with  input   at the end  of course

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On Python 3  input  Press Enter to Exit        Will do the trick

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you can combine the answers before   for Notepad   User   press F5 to run current script and type in command    cmd  k python -i    FULL CURRENT PATH     in this way you stay in interactive mode after executing your Notepad   python script and you are able to play around with your variables and so on

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Go here and download and install Notepad     Go here and download and install Python 2 7 not 3    Start  Run Powershell   Enter the following    Environment   SetEnvironmentVariable  Path     env Path C  Python27    User   Close Powershell and reopen it  Make a directory for your programs   mkdir scripts Open that directory cd scripts In Notepad    in a new file type  print  hello world  Save the file as hello py Go back to powershell and make sure you are in the right directory by typing dir   You should see your file hello py there  At the Powershell prompt type  python hello py

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I found the solution on my py3 enviroment at win10 is just run cmd or powershell as Administrator and the output would stay at the same console window any other type of user run python command would cause python to open a new console window

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import sys traceback sys exc info   0  traceback format exc   print  quot Press Enter to exit     quot   input     simply write the above code after your actual code  for eg  am taking input from user and print on console hence my code will be look like this -- gt   import sys traceback nam input  quot enter your name  quot   print  quot your name is -   quot  format nam    here all my actual working is done sys exc info   0  traceback format exc   print  quot Press Enter to exit     quot   input

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I had a similar problem  With Notepad   I used to use the command   C  Python27 python exe    FULL CURRENT PATH   which closed the cmd window immediately after the code terminated  Now I am using cmd  k c  Python27 python exe    FULL CURRENT PATH   which keeps the cmd window open

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Try this  import sys  stat  idlelib  in sys modules  if stat  False      input    This will only stop console window  not the IDLE

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A very belated answer  but I created a Windows Batch file called pythonbat bat containing the following   python exe  1  echo off echo  pause   and then specified pythonbat bat as the default handler for  py files   Now  when I double-click a  py file in File Explorer  it opens a new console window  runs the Python script and then pauses  remains open   until I press any key     No changes required to any Python scripts   I can still open a console window and specify python myscript py if I want to      I just noticed  maurizio already posted this exact answer

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Apart from input and raw input  you could also use an infinite while loop  like this  while True  pass  Python 2 5  3  or while 1  pass  all versions of Python 2 3   This might use computing power  though   You could also run the program from the command line  Type python into the command line  Mac OS X Terminal  and it should say Python 3      Your Python version  It it does not show your Python version  or says python  command not found  look into changing PATH values  enviromentl values  listed above  type C   Python folder python exe  If that is successful  type python or C   Python installation  python exe and the full directory of your program

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If you want to stay cmd-window open AND be in running-file directory this works at Windows 10   cmd  k cd  d   CURRENT DIRECTORY   amp  amp  python   FULL CURRENT PATH

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To just keep the window open I agree with Anurag and this is what I did to keep my windows open for short little calculation type programs   This would just show a cursor with no text   raw input      This next example would give you a clear message that the program is done and not waiting on another input prompt within the program   print  You have reached the end and the  raw input    function is keeping the window open    raw input        Note     1  In python 3  there is no raw input    just   input       2  Use single quotes to indicate a string  otherwise if you type doubles around anything  such as    raw input     it will think it is a function  variable  etc  and not text    In this next example  I use double quotes and it won t work because it thinks there is a break in the quotes between  the  and  function  even though when you read it  your own mind can make perfect sense of it   print  You have reached the end and the  input    function is keeping the window open   input     Hopefully this helps others who might be starting out and still haven t figured out how the computer thinks yet  It can take a while   o

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