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How to hide console with Popen on Windows?

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xliiv

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May 18, 2012, 4:22:26 AM5/18/12
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Like the topic, more details in followed links..


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10637450/how-to-hide-console-with-popen-on-windows

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/409002-launching-a-subprocess-without-a-console-window/?c=14452

Please help :(
Any hint i would appreciate

Kevin Walzer

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May 18, 2012, 7:09:02 AM5/18/12
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There are some Windows-specific flags in the subprocess module that you
can set to control the display of a console window. I use something like
this:

self.pscmd=os.path.join(execdir, 'pstools-1.1/txt2ps.exe')
startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
txtps = self.pscmd + ' -o ' + tempfile.gettempdir() +
'\\whois.ps' + ' ' + tmpfile
subprocess.check_output(txtps, startupinfo = startupinfo)

Hope this helps.
--
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com

alex23

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May 21, 2012, 12:38:34 AM5/21/12
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On May 18, 6:22 pm, xliiv <tymoteusz.jankow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like the topic, more details in followed links..
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10637450/how-to-hide-console-with-...

Try replacing all of your code with something simple, a 'pass' op will
do. Run the script again. Does the console still open? Then it's not
subprocess that you're struggling with.

If I put your code into a .py file and execute it under Windows via a
double-click, I get a console: the one in which the .py file is
executing. Unless you're able to make the file a .pyw file - which you
are apparently not as you're using OpenOffice - then executing the
code that uses Popen is what is displaying a console, not the call to
Popen itself.

xliiv

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May 21, 2012, 1:00:26 PM5/21/12
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Ok, thanks for explanation.
Now I know that my 'solution' is not a solution and problem still bugs me.
Any ideas how to deal with it?

alex23

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May 21, 2012, 8:45:11 PM5/21/12
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On May 22, 3:00 am, xliiv <tymoteusz.jankow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I know that my 'solution' is not a solution and problem still bugs me.
> Any ideas how to deal with it?

I haven't tried it but this thread talks about being able to use a
standard install of Python with OpenOffice:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26877

xliiv

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May 22, 2012, 11:59:04 AM5/22/12
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Thx for the link
It's useful especially that:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=26149
for my walkaround of the problem.


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