suppressing the console in a GUI program

[John Salerno]

John Salerno wrote:
> Hi guys. I tried naming my file with a .pyw extension, but the console 
> still shows up. Why doesn't this work? And is there another, more 
> programmatic way to suppress it?
> 
> Thanks.

I just noticed that the console that opens isn't the normal one, it's 
IPython. Now how would I suppress that one as well? Again, any way to do 
  it in the program, or is that not a good idea for when it gets ported 
to another platform?