Have you tried calling it something like this:
Popen(cmd, creationflags=win32process.CREATE_NO_WINDOW)


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Bryan A. Jones <[email protected]>wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm stuck with a Pyinstaller problem (Windows 7, latest pyinstaller from
> git, Python 2.7). I'd like to create an application without a console
> window, so I pass --noconsole to pyinstaller. However, I also call some
> external programs from my application, which is causing problems:
>
>    1. If I use subprocess.call and friends, I get the exception OSError
>    exception "[Error 6] the handle is invalid." This is because a noconsole
>    app has no stdin/stdout/stderr; by default, subprocess tries to pass these
>    on to the child process, which fails.
>    2. If I use subprocess.call with stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE
>    (which opens a pipe between the child process and my parent Python
>    process), everything works, but I get a command window that appears briefly
>    on the screen. Because I call this child process a lot, I see a lot of
>    distracting consoles opening and closing.
>    3. Trying op.spawnl produces identical results to #2.
>
> All the code works fine when running without --noconsole or running
> directly from Python. Any ideas on how to run a child subprocess
> successfully, but without opening a console window?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bryan
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