Set Windows command-line terminal title in Python

Question

I\'m running several instances of a certain Python script on a Windows machine, each from a different directory and using a separate shell windows. Unfortunately Windows giv

Answer 1

Due to not enough rep I cannot add a comment to the above post - so as a new post.

In Python 3 you can use:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleW("My New Title")

I edited this answer: please remark, that it now uses SetConsoleTitleW, which is the Unicode version of the SetConsoleTitle function. This way you can use unicode and no longer have to encode the string/variable to a byte object. You can just replace the argument with the string variable.