On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Michael C
<mysecretrobotfact...@gmail.com> wrote:
> from PIL import Image
>
> im = Image.open('pic.bmp')
> im.show()
>
> I ran this code and it not only opened the picture in paint, which is what
> I want, but it also opens a CMD.exe console window! how do I prevent that from
> happening?You're probably running a .py script that's associated with py.exe or python.exe. These executables create a new console (i.e. an instance of the console host process, conhost.exe), if they don't inherit one from their parent process. The new console defaults to creating a visible window. Change the file extension to .pyw. This file extension should be associated with pyw.exe or pythonw.exe, which will not create a console. FYI, the cmd shell is unrelated to that console window. Windows users often confuse the cmd shell with the console window that it uses. I suppose it's less confusing on Linux. Like cmd, bash will inherit the parent's terminal/console; however, it doesn't automatically spawn a terminal on Linux if the parent doesn't have one. (Getting that behavior on Windows requires the DETACHED_PROCESS creation flag.) Since Windows users typically run cmd.exe to get a command-line shell for running programs, they associate cmd.exe with the console window. It isn't obvious that other programs create consoles without any associated instance of cmd.exe. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
