Windows: How to detect whether a Python app/script is runningin console/GUI mode?
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From: Tim Golden on 27 Jul 2010 11:36 On 27/07/2010 15:58, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:36,<python(a)bdurham.com> wrote: > >> Windows: How can I detect whether a Python app/script is running in >> console/GUI mode? By app I mean a script compiled to an exe via py2exe or >> similar. >> >> Thank you, >> Malcolm >> > > I don't remember much about py2exe, but you could check if > ``os.path.split(sys.executable)[1]`` equals pythonw.exe (typical for GUIs) > or just python.exe (regular console). Don't know whether it's foolproof, but I suspect that checking whether win32console.GetConsoleWindow () returns zero is probably not a bad approach. TJG |