Run Python script without opening Pythonwin

Question

I have a python script which I can run from pythonwin on which I give the arguments. Is it possible to automate this so that when I just click on the *.py file, I don't see the script and it asks for the path in a dos window?

Answer 1

Rename it to *.pyw to hide the console on execution in Windows.

Answer 2

You can also wrap it in a batch file, containing:

c:\path to python.exe c:\path to file.py

You can then also easily set an icon, run in window/run hidden etc on the batch file.

Answer 3

You're running on Windows, so you need an association between .py files and some binary to run them. Have a look at this post.

When you run "assoc .py", do you get Python.File? When you run "ftype Python.File", what do you get? If "ftype Python.File" points at some python.exe, your python script should run without any prompting.

Answer 4

how does your script ask for or get its parameters? If it expects them from the call to the script (i.e. in sys.argv) and Pythonwin just notices that and prompts you for them (I think Pyscripter does something similar) you can either run it from a CMD window (commandline) where you can give the arguments as in

python myscript.py argument-1 argument-2

or modify your script to ask for the arguments itself instead (using a gui like Tkinter if you don't want to run from commandline).