How to hide console window in python

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I am writing an IRC bot in Python    I wish to make stand-alone binaries for Linux and Windows of it  And mainly I wish that when the bot initiates  the console window should hide and the user should not be able to see the window   What can I do for that

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On Unix Systems  including GNU Linux  macOS  and BSD  Use nohup mypythonprog  amp   and you can close the terminal window without disrupting the process  You can also run exit if you are running in the cloud and don t want to leave a hanging shell process  On Windows Systems Save the program with a  pyw extension and now it will open with pythonw exe  No shell window  For example  if you have foo py  you need to rename it to foo pyw

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Simply save it with a  pyw extension  This will prevent the console window from opening      On Windows systems  there is no notion of an    executable mode     The Python installer automatically associates  py files with python exe so that a double-click on a Python file will run it as a script  The extension can also be  pyw  in that case  the console window that normally appears is suppressed    Explanation at the bottom of section 2 2 2

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If all you want to do is run your Python Script on a windows computer that has the Python Interpreter installed  converting the extension of your saved script from   py  to   pyw  should do the trick    But if you re using py2exe to convert your script into a standalone application that would run on any windows machine  you will need to make the following changes to your  setup py  file    The following example is of a simple python-GUI made using Tkinter   from distutils core import setup import py2exe setup  console     tkinter example pyw           options      py2exe      packages    Tkinter        Change  console  in the code above to  windows     from distutils core import setup import py2exe setup  windows     tkinter example pyw           options      py2exe      packages    Tkinter        This will only open the Tkinter generated GUI and no console window

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This will hide your console  Implement these lines in your code first to start hiding your console at first   import win32gui  win32con  the program to hide   win32gui GetForegroundWindow   win32gui ShowWindow the program to hide   win32con SW HIDE    Update May 2020    If you ve got trouble on pip install win32con on Command Prompt  you can simply pip install pywin32 Then on your python script  execute import win32 lib win32con as win32con instead of import win32con   To show back your program again win32con SW SHOW works fine   win32gui ShowWindow the program to hide   win32con SW SHOW

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In linux  just run it  no problem   In Windows  you want to use the pythonw executable  Update Okay  if I understand the question in the comments  you re asking how to make the command window in which you ve started the bot from the command line go away afterwards   UNIX  Linux      nohup mypythonprog  amp    Windows   C   gt  start pythonw mypythonprog  I think that s right   In any case  now you can close the terminal

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Some additional info  for situations that ll need the win32gui solution posted by Mohsen Haddadi earlier in this thread   As of python 361  win32gui  amp  win32con are not part of the python std library  To use them  pywin32 package will need to be installed  now possible via pip   More background info on pywin32 package is at  How to use the win32gui module with Python    Also  to apply discretion while closing a window so as to not inadvertently close any window in the foreground  the resolution could be extended along the lines of the following   try            import win32gui  win32con       frgrnd wndw   win32gui GetForegroundWindow        wndw title    win32gui GetWindowText frgrnd wndw       if wndw title endswith  python exe            win32gui ShowWindow frgrnd wndw  win32con SW HIDE        endif except        pass

[python] How to hide console window in python?

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