How to set the program title in python

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FrederikNS picture FrederikNS · Feb 25, 2010 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I have been building a large python program for a while, and would like to know how I would go about setting the title of the program? On a mac the title of program, which has focus, is shown in the top left corner of the screen, next the apple menu. Currently this only shows the word "Python", but I would of course like to my program's title there instead.

Answer

Daniel G picture Daniel G · Feb 25, 2010

It depends on what type of application you have. If it's a graphical application, most graphical toolkits allow you to change the title of a window (tk, which comes with python, allows you to do this by calling the title() method of your window object, as does gtk, for which you can use the set_title() method on a Gtk.Window object)

If you're talking about changing the title of the terminal window (for mac or Linux), the you have this option (from here):

import sys
sys.stdout.write("\x1b]2;Another Title\x07")

For Windows, there's a different method:

import os
os.system("title Yet Another Title")

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