Hiding console window

[Lucas Raab]

I'm looking to play a joke on a friend and I'm wondering if there's a way to
not show or hide the DOS console. My friend doesn't have python so I have to
compile it to an EXE.

TIA

[Peter Hansen]

Lucas Raab wrote:

I'm looking to play a joke on a friend and I'm wondering if there's a way to
not show or hide the DOS console. My friend doesn't have python so I have to
compile it to an EXE.

Use py2exe to compile Python programs to EXEs.

You would need to define what "hide" means to you to get a useful answer
to the first part of the question. I would just click on the "close"
gadget in the upper right corner, if I wanted to "hide" a DOS console...

-Peter

[Josef Meile]

Peter Hansen wrote:

Lucas Raab wrote:

I'm looking to play a joke on a friend and I'm wondering if there's a
way to
not show or hide the DOS console. My friend doesn't have python so I
have to
compile it to an EXE.

Use py2exe to compile Python programs to EXEs.

You would need to define what "hide" means to you to get a useful answer
to the first part of the question. I would just click on the "close"
gadget in the upper right corner, if I wanted to "hide" a DOS console...

-Peter

I think there is a way of telling py2exe that the program is a windows
exe, so you won't see the console. You just have to invoque the py2exe
help. If I'm not wrong the option should be "--help" or "-h"
Regards,
Josef

[Otto Krüse]

You can tell py2exe to make a windows exe by putting the line windows =
["yourscript .py"] in your setup.py script.
Example:
"""
# A setup script

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(windows = ["yourScript .py"])
"""
What I'm wondering about now if there's a way to achieve the same for a
python script (instead of the .exe version of that script). --> I want
to double-click on a python Tkinter script and only see the GUI, not the
console window behind it. Does anyone know how to do this?

Regards,
Otto

Josef Meile wrote:

Peter Hansen wrote:

Lucas Raab wrote:

I'm looking to play a joke on a friend and I'm wondering if there's a
way to
not show or hide the DOS console. My friend doesn't have python so I
have to
compile it to an EXE.

Use py2exe to compile Python programs to EXEs.

You would need to define what "hide" means to you to get a useful
answer to the first part of the question. I would just click on the
"close" gadget in the upper right corner, if I wanted to "hide" a DOS
console...

-Peter

I think there is a way of telling py2exe that the program is a windows
exe, so you won't see the console. You just have to invoque the py2exe
help. If I'm not wrong the option should be "--help" or "-h"
Regards,
Josef

[Jørgen Cederberg]

Otto Krüse wrote:

You can tell py2exe to make a windows exe by putting the line windows =
["yourscript .py"] in your setup.py script.
Example:
"""
# A setup script

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(windows = ["yourScript .py"])
"""
What I'm wondering about now if there's a way to achieve the same for a
python script (instead of the .exe version of that script). --> I want
to double-click on a python Tkinter script and only see the GUI, not the
console window behind it. Does anyone know how to do this?

The extension should pyw instead of py!

Regards
Jorgen

[Lucas Raab]

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I'm looking to play a joke on a friend and I'm wondering if there's a way to not show or hide the DOS console. My friend doesn't have python so I have to compile it to an EXE.

TIA

In response to Peter's question, what I meant when I said hide was to hide
the console while running the program. Essentially, it would run in the
background. The application would run, but you wouldn't see any sign of it.
In response to Jorgen and Josef, unfortunately it didn't work. Here's the
code for it. It may be a little messy, but I wasn't aiming for perfection:

import pygame
import time

def sleep():
#Sleep for 5 minutes
time.sleep(300)
def play():
#Initialize pygame
pygame.init()
#Initialize mixer
pygame.mixer.in it()
#Load and play sound1
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/sound1.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play hazards of retreating
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/hazards_of_retr eating.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play bring it on
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/bring_it_on.mp3 ')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play freaked by flood
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/freaked_by_floo d.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play grunty thirst
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/grunty_thirst.m p3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play joe has lost it
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/joe_has_lost_it .mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play the french grunt
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\th e_french_grunt. mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play stacker e3 outtake2
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\st acker_e3_outtak e2.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play poor running anatomy
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\po or_running_anat omy.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play bring it on
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\br ing_it_on.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
#Quit playing and close pygame
pygame.mixer.qu it()
pygame.quit()

#Start the program
play()

You may raise your eyebrows at the filenames, but as I said its a joke I'm
playing. The sound clips are based off the game Halo. Just fill in your own
files instead of mine.

TIA

[Josef Meile]

If you generate the exe with py2exe, then you could do:

python setup.py py2exe -v -w

Where setup.py is the setup script where you specify the
python imports and your program modules. (see py2exe
documentation). The "-w" option was the option I was
talking before. I don't know if it produces the same
effect of the proposed solution by Otto. With this option,
you won't see a DOS console, however, I don't know if
it will hide the icon on the task bar. Try to call the script
on the "Startup" menu or with the "Scheduled Tasks" of
windows or perhaps you will have to do it from the
registry.

In response to Peter's question, what I meant when I said hide was to hide
the console while running the program. Essentially, it would run in the
background. The application would run, but you wouldn't see any sign of it. In response to Jorgen and Josef, unfortunately it didn't work. Here's the
code for it. It may be a little messy, but I wasn't aiming for perfection:

import pygame
import time

def sleep():
#Sleep for 5 minutes
time.sleep(300)
def play():
#Initialize pygame
pygame.init()
#Initialize mixer
pygame.mixer.in it()
#Load and play sound1
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/sound1.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play hazards of retreating
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/hazards_of_retr eating.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play bring it on
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/bring_it_on.mp3 ')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play freaked by flood
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/freaked_by_floo d.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play grunty thirst
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/grunty_thirst.m p3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play joe has lost it
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:/joe_has_lost_it .mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play the french grunt
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\th e_french_grunt. mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play stacker e3 outtake2
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\st acker_e3_outtak e2.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play poor running anatomy
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\po or_running_anat omy.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
sleep()
#Load and play bring it on
pygame.mixer.mu sic.load('C:\br ing_it_on.mp3')
pygame.mixer.mu sic.play()
#Quit playing and close pygame
pygame.mixer.qu it()
pygame.quit()

#Start the program
play()

You may raise your eyebrows at the filenames, but as I said its a joke I'm
playing. The sound clips are based off the game Halo. Just fill in your own files instead of mine.