Use the flag --windowed, so that black console window won't show up.

Before you turn it into a exe, rename the file to .pyw instead of .py That will get rid of the command prompt that always shows up

in order to avoid the "command window" to pop up when you run the executable, you just have to write "-- noconsole" along with the pyinstaller call

This was great!! So straightforward and useful. I was able to build a front end GUI app for my python script at work because of this video. Awesome job man.

I just signed up for the full membership. Thanks for making useful videos.

I watched many parts of the series and its awesome, thank you John!

Thanks for the video and the entire playlist, it has been so helpful! Subscribed and liked!

Thanks for this tutorial, I had been trying to do that since ages. Really appreciate your work.

Great tutorial, we can also add '--noconsole' in the command prompt to hide the black window

Thank you so much for the info that I can clean up everything besides the main file!

Thanks for this tutorial! Finally my school project has been completed. 🙂

THANK YOU. I was trying to look up how to make an executable .exe, but the program that you used to make the .exe actually helped me with my program. I had a problem with inputting the text into the same window and the "myLabel = tkinter.Label(root, text) " helped. Thank you!

-w (or --windowed, or --noconsole) This will get rid of the blank CMD from popping up during launch --name="" This will name the app differently from your . py file --icon= (note, if you have your images in sub folders you need to use the path to that folder. Example: images/lock.ico --onefile (this one is hit and miss. Sometimes I do without this one to get app running right)

Suuuuuuuuuuuuper helpful tutorial. Thank you John!

Try to run this 'standalone program' in any other windows computer( if possible except windows10 ) . It does not work for me at least. Also will it work on other os?

IT'S ALWAYS THE UNDERRATED VID THAT'S LEGIT! THANK YOU!

Adding --noconsole does the job perfectly!

pyinstaller -w --onefile --icon=codemy.ico entry_height.py -w (to avoid cmd console) Thanks for tutorial man!

wow cant believe I hadn't run across this before. thanks, mate!

Tip: Application won't start without icon next to it on another pc if you use an icon instead of tkinter default icon on its windows, check the path of the icon in python code also

Did you make a later videos for better ways to do this? Pyinstaller makes the program run really slowly on another computer

Hey John, I was successful in creating python exe file, but while using tjr same file on another computer, it got detected as a virus. Basically any exe file which i create is shown as a virus. How can i solve this problem other than adding the file as exception in any antivirus software?

I'm having issues with Windows Defender flagging my exe file as a Trojan. It only seems to happen when I use the --onefile flag, but it defeats some of the purpose of packaging my script if my coworkers have to keep the two directories as they are in order to use the program. Sending one executable file would be much cleaner. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi John! Thanks for this! What if I have a picture in my code? Is there a way to specify it as we do with the icon?

I had several issues when i was triying to turn my TK application into an .exe file. In case you have some issues as well(not opening etc) use auto-py-to-exe. >>pip install auto-py-to-exe < to install it >>auto-py-to-exe < to open it -I hope i could help for those people that are having problems :)

Thank you Mr. White!

Sir i created a weather app which you shown in 24th video in your playlist but i did some changes adding images of cloud and other weathers but when i try to convert it to exe file its showing error. I think thats probably due to images of clouds and all. Can you tell me command to rectify it.

your a boss sir i watched all your videos there amasing sirtenly with your dog

Use thanks for this amazing free content!

wowwww! i just made my first executable file! Thanks.

Thanks for the video it was a huge help! Now I have made my executable is there a way to update it? I can't seem to find a way to make changes without deleting the exe and installing again with the new source code.

You're the best sir ❤️ thanks a lot for this whole playlist

save the .py file as a .pyw , it runs the exact same as a regular python file but runs without the shell window

What if our program uses some images ? can we still run the exe file isolated without those ..? since i got an error

Awesome Sir, This helps a lot.

Thanks. Well appreciated

hey, great video here helped me alot. However i have a image file in my code, which when i create a .exe it launches but flags a error saying the image can't be found. am i missing something here, in my code i have the 'my_img = ImageTk.PhotoImage (Image.open("image.png"))' which maps to the location of my image in my code and works when operating though python directly. when operate through .exe basiclly says "failed to execute due to unhandled exception: [Errno 2] no such file or directory: 'image.png'

Hi, I am trying same thing.. But when running in other machine still its again asking me for install modules which I have used in my exe. Please suggest

Thanks for answering

hello, i have a problem with this method when i try to run the program on my other pc

you can install auto-py-to-exe and run this int he terminal in order to convert your .py to a .exe! Also there is a setting to remove the black console window!

Thank you for the video. Of couse why not using the "--noconsole" argument to the command so it wouldn't create that console?

Thank you very much sir.

like always thank you sir for your great videos i have questions i write some code to scraping a site. it have button called "get" to do that. i use selenium for scraping when i click on button it run scraping functions while scraping functions is running tkinter window show "not responding" massage what i must do 🤦🏻‍♂️ again very thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

What about if we have more than one window in our program with more ico files and png files

I have a little problem, my app has images taken from an specific directory. If I want to distribute it, people would have to install these images too?. And if so... The python code takes the image from that specific directory, but for the client it would not be the same directory, so it would bring an error. Is there a way to get rid of this problem?

Thank You great video

What can I do when my python file relies on some external libraries? Would I have to pack the whole library into the .exe file? Thanks!

thanks sir it really works!

Thanks for the course, i really appreciate it, i kind of have a little problem.

Hello Sir! Your content is Awesome... Here pyinstaller -h -F filename also works to avoid poping the black window Thank You Sir ,These videos help a lot.

Hello, I have created an app in Python which must connect to a database, but I want to extract the credentials from the code and make an executable to put it into production. The problem is that one way or another the user has access to the credentials, whether they put them in the code or include the .env file with the executable. Anyway, I don't know what to do to prevent users from having access to the credentials, I would like to know how I can do so that only the app has access to the credentials. Greetings.

The computer I coded the .py file on, once turned into an .exe file, still works perfectly, until I move it to another computer for download. When I do so its detected as a virus. I would like to sell software soon so this is an issue I'd love to eliminate. I'm still learning, but to test converting .py into .exe I made a simple calculator program. Not very modern visually and not too many lines of code. But it still is flagged on other computers. Help plz!

Hi there,thanks for your videos. I have a question, im working in a GUI using tkinter, the python file size is 257 KB. When i create executable using pyinstaller, the size of the GUI is 100 MB. What could be the reason?

Great job. Can you please tell me what you use for screen capture and video editing for that amazing clean green effect? Also, what microphone you use? :)

Hey John, Thanks for your videos. I am on vacation leave and started learning Python and Tkinter on my own with the help of some Google searches and KZfaq videos such as yours. Your Videos are super great! In a way, 'thanks for the pandemic lock down'. Well understand me. If you type a single - and a w (-w) after you typed the icon+"name".ico that command prompt will not show up. again, thanks for your videos.

Thanks a lot. Great video and helpful comments who made the black window disappear. It works for me just on 64bit Windows not on 32. Can I fix that somehow? Is there a way to make an APK file out of this?

Great video! However, I get a ridiculously large exe file (~200 MB) for a fairly basic project (a couple of functions and nearly 100 lines of code). Any tips to reduce file size?

Is it impossible to save information in an external file with these standalone files? Like settings, etc. I mean, like internally.

hey john I use this method to make an executable file of flashcard app and a flashcard.exe is made but when I run a cmd window pop up and after some seconds it closes showing something traceback type error and the actual file is not run yet

Sir I made the app with pyinstaller I opened it in my pc its working totally fine but when I shared only the .exe file of my app to my friend then in his pc that app is not opening [He goes in the location where my app is saved and clicks it and installs it and then when he opens only that black command line window appears then after 2-3seconds the command line box disappears and the application window doesn't appears.] Help me fix the problem sir

What do to if i have many pictures embedded inside my tkinter gui , is it possible to create a standalone for that type of file which contains alot of pics packed ?

Awsome, helped me alot

i learned how to put icon in exe file so thankyou

Just wondering if firebase is supported by pyinstaller because I am struggling to try and convert my .py file with tkinter gcloud and smtplib into a .exe

I am making a program in the Python language on the Tekinter library, and when I convert the program to an exe file, it does not record with me any record from the printer, while I am running from the editor, the recording takes place, and I do not know where the problem is exactly

thank you so much steve jobs

Please tell me if I have some text file which I am showing in this text widget then how to make exe

any insight on how to package Selenium with this? Thanks!

Hi John, First an apology in my first comment I thought your name was Danial Sorry about that. I really like your teaching style and hope you can help with my enquiry about reading the IOT ESP8266 unit. Thanks Len Beasley

very good video and very easy method thanks a lot

Hey elder.. i have done everything, instead of running my exe , it shows error 'unhandled exception' .. what should i do?

Hi, Do you know other ways of deploying the application. like moving the exe to the server and calling the exe on client machines, so other users can't decode the exe (as there are ways to decode). considering use of exe in a organization, where i don't want users to see my code (specially credentials used in code like for database connection)

if it is a big program (with dashboard and other..mysql), can we run like this..?

how will this work if my program needs to have atleast multiple scripts? do I just build from my main script?

The .py file I'm trying to change contains sqlite3 and the .exe file created won't work, but when I try it without any of the database stuff the .exe file works. I even tried placing the database file in the same folder as the .exe file but it still doesn't work. Is there something different for sqlite3?

Useful tutorial. 👍 Can you explain how we can convert a python script contains sone photo image to exe file. Ii will be more interesting.

What if my python project got multiple files linked with eachother?

For people who have used images and icons in their code, you need to have those images and icons in the same folder as in code for it to work. a little tip here: keep all your images and icons in a single folder such as 'resources' and change your code so that those images can be read from resources directory. this way, you will only have one exe file and the rest in the resouces folder. clean and efficient.

If we import other libraries the converted exe file do not have that libraries

Just seen your video #40 - I did look below but couldn't see a comment about this so sorry if already there. To stop the terminal window just add "--noconsole" to the command line. Regards.

How can I do that when I use a tkinter GUI and selenium with a dir "User Profile" for my chrome profile? I keep getting the error "failed to executescript". I tried adding the folder, I tried adding it manually after compiling the .py file to .exe and so on. Nothing worked for me. Any tip?

Hey I'm getting the "File not defined" or "File not found" error as I have images and sounds in my python code. How do set the file path of these images in my python code so that the executable works on any other computer?

Thanks for the valuable video. You can use --noconsole to get rid of the console.

My Command Prompt does not recognize "pip" install unless I am in the directory with pyinstaller. Is that how it's supposed to work? Its seems like in all of the examples they just run "pip install pyinstaller" from wherever.

hi, is it possible to include an icon in the title bar so that when I create an executable .exe it is incorporated in it without having to carry it around every time? for example if I change pc?

Thanks !

What would happen if the end user doesn't have all the dependencies available in their system? For example, someone downloads the exefile from internet and the user doesn't have phyton installed in the computer; what that still run?

The file that I installed needed SQLite database to work, and when I run the project I installed it can't connect to the database, how do I fix this?

Thanks for it

Thanks for the explanation. For some reason after installing pyinstaller through pip, I keep getting "No module named 'pyinstaller'"

Hey I do belive adding --noconsole when generating the .exe does remove the black console window... I do not tested yet on a computer without python installed but if works let me know!

Hi, I come back and see this video because after creating the exe file the tkinter entry dont accept the paste shortcut why is that? and how can I fix it?

Which method do u prefer for creating a standalone exe

Do you have a video of how to compile multiple .py into an exe, I also am using CTk as well. I tried pyinstaller but its missing dependencies

sir I did it..but problem is that when I double click on my final .exe file only black window opens not the GUI window

hi, you are amazing!!! I was woundering if you are going to explain the treeview in tkinter....

You are on windows right ? in mac it doesnt bring all the necessary files like this, I mean I cannot share it with others

Now using both --windowed and --onefile flags the exe file as a virus!! Anyway to handle that and hide that popup command prompt??

Sir can I convert py to exe including sqlite3 database imported in my python app?