Consider looking into Cygwin or MSYS if you want Windows access to *nix tools.
To hide the console window, use a .pyw extension on your Python scripts and/or run them with pythonw instead of python.
For the last, Mark Hammond's win32 extensions will probably be needed, but other than that, I have no idea :)
Cheers, Nick.
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