Hide the console of an .exe file created with PyInstaller

Question

I want to make my program executable. I used TkInter to write the GUI, and I read somewhere that you have to save your file as .pyw to hide the console when the program is e

Answer 1

Did you try --windowed command line flag ?

Answer 2

What are you using to make the executable?

If you use py2exe and you use:

setup(windows=[pythonscriptnamehere])

in the setup script instead of:

setup(console=[pythonscriptnamehere])

it will run the executable without launching a terminal in the background.