How to hide console window in python?

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Godwin Austin picture Godwin Austin · Apr 19, 2009 · Viewed 145.3k times · Source

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?

Answer

mdec picture mdec · Apr 19, 2009

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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