Hiding console window

Josef Meile jmeile at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 18 09:29:15 EST 2004


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




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