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 gives each of these shell windows the same name:

<User>: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe - <script.py>

Is it possible to set this name to something else through a Python command?

Answer 1

This works for Python2.7 under Windows.

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

Answer 2

On Windows, a simple console command will suffice:

from os import system
system("title " + myCoolTitle)

Nice and easy.

Answer 3

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 4

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")