Getting rid of console output when freezing Python programs using Pyinstaller

Question

I have recently written a fairly simple program for my grandfather using Python with GUI from Tkinter, and it works beautifully for what he will be using it for. However, th

Answer 1

This is one of the first things that comes up in a search for this info, so I'd like to add what I found for release 3.2 of pyinstaller. If you've already packaged your script by running

pyinstaller --onefile your_script.py

or similar, you can edit the your_script.spec file to rid yourself of the console.

    exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          a.binaries,
          a.zipfiles,
          a.datas,
          name='main',
          debug=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=True,
          console=True )

Simply change the console value to False. Then run:

pyinstaller your_script.spec

Additionally, if you make changes to your code, run the above command to have them reflected in the your_script.exe. I have found this useful for debugging various other issues.