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Facade Kitsune
Facade Kitsune

Reputation: 15

python user input without console

I have a process that runs in the background using pythonw (.pyw instead of .py) to not show console. as I am reformatting said process for distribution I need it to preform some first run questions that need answering. making the user fill out a generated text file would work but is not user friendly. it is sadly not as simple as

config = {}
config['user'] = input('new user data: ')

because there is no console to request the input it will hang unanswered

as I am tying to make this for systems that may not have custom modules I'm trying to not make dependencies. any good way to ask multiple questions without the console to host the input using the base python install.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1480

Answers (1)

jfs
jfs

Reputation: 414179

To emulate builtin input() using tkinter, you could use askstring():

from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter.simpledialog import askstring

root = Tk()
root.withdraw() # hide main window

config = {}
config['user'] = askstring("Title", 'new user data: ')

Upvotes: 2

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