On Jul 27, 8:36 am, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > On 27/07/2010 15:58, Brian Curtin wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:36,<pyt...@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
Executables built with py2exe have an attribute sys.frozen and its value is 'console_exe' for console applications or 'windows_exe' for GUI applications. See for example <http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/ Py2exeEnvironment>. /Jean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
