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reemer9997
reemer9997

Reputation: 341

How to close a .pyw manually

I have a python program that will never exit automatically. However, it does need to do so at some point. It must run without the console, so I saved it as a .pyw, but this means there is no X to click on to close it. How do I close this manually without restarting the machine? I am on Windows, in case it needs the command line.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4089

Answers (3)

harivilasp
harivilasp

Reputation: 1

you can include threading in your script to take input 

from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener
import threading
import sys

def on_press(key):
    global pause
    if str(format(key))[1]=='`':
        sys.exit()

def fun():
    YOUR CODE HERE

threading.Thread(target=fun).start()

with Listener(
        on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

this will exit your code when pressed "`" sys.exit() will stop main thead but you need to manage in way that fun() thread also ends to end the program actually

Upvotes: 0

Some Guy
Some Guy

Reputation: 388

You can make a file. The .pyw program should check it about every 1 seconds. If the file changes, run the quit() command in the .pyw program. But don't check it every tick, as it will fail because the file is in a 'changing' state.

Example:

### Do Something here...

from datetime import datetime
last = 0 #Record the last time to do checking, for now, just put it to any number you want
while True:
    now = datetime.now()
    second = now.second
    if now != second:
        ### Do checking here for example, a file called "quit_state.txt"
        date = open("quit_state.txt",'r').read().strip() ### Strip the data
        if date == "quit":
            quit()

Just Change the file data to quit and the program will stop

Upvotes: 0

user5941701
user5941701

Reputation:

You could just do taskkill /IM pythonw.exe /F if you have only one pythonw running. Type this into a terminal or create a link on the desktop or wherever you want.

Upvotes: 4

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