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FrederikNS
FrederikNS

Reputation: 5772

How to set the program title in python

I have been building a large python program for a while, and would like to know how I would go about setting the title of the program? On a mac the title of program, which has focus, is shown in the top left corner of the screen, next the apple menu. Currently this only shows the word "Python", but I would of course like to my program's title there instead.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 16471

Answers (2)

Daniel G
Daniel G

Reputation: 69692

It depends on what type of application you have. If it's a graphical application, most graphical toolkits allow you to change the title of a window (tk, which comes with python, allows you to do this by calling the title() method of your window object, as does gtk, for which you can use the set_title() method on a Gtk.Window object)

If you're talking about changing the title of the terminal window (for mac or Linux), the you have this option (from here):

import sys
sys.stdout.write("\x1b]2;Another Title\x07")

For Windows, there's a different method:

import os
os.system("title Yet Another Title")

Upvotes: 16

gruszczy
gruszczy

Reputation: 42188

Since your program is interpreted by Python, then what actually is run is Python itself - the interpreter program. You would have to have your Python script merged with Python into a single executable and that would be able to have a separate name. For windows there is py2exe, that does that, but I have no idea if there is a similar tool for Mac OS (and if there is any need for that, there is some BSD under the hood right?).

Upvotes: 3

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