Set Windows command-line terminal title in Python

Question

I\'m running several instances of a certain Python script on a Windows machine, each from a different directory and using a separate shell windows. Unfortunately Windows giv

Answer 1

It is now possible to change the window title from within any language via outputting a standard escape sequence to the console (stdout). Here's a working example from a batch file Change command prompt to only show current directory name however just printing ESC close-bracket 2 semicolon your-title-here BEL (control-G) will do it. Also an easily adapted PHP example:

function windowTitle($title)
  {printf("\033]2;%s\007", $title);}

Answer 2

Due to not enough rep I cannot add a comment to the above post - so as a new post.

In Python 3 you can use:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleW("My New Title")

I edited this answer: please remark, that it now uses SetConsoleTitleW, which is the Unicode version of the SetConsoleTitle function. This way you can use unicode and no longer have to encode the string/variable to a byte object. You can just replace the argument with the string variable.

Answer 3

Since you're only going to be running this on Windows (IOW, there's not a cross-platform way to do this):

1. Download & install the Win32 extensions for python

2. Inside of your script, you can change the title of the console with the function

   win32console.SetConsoleTitle("My Awesome App")

Answer 4

I am not aware of a way to change the cmd window title from within the script.

However, you can set the title when launching the script if you use the start command.

Answer 5

This works for Python2.7 under Windows.

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA("My New Title")

Answer 6

In place of XYZ, enter the window name you want to keep.

import os
os.system("title XYZ")