Run python script on Windows 10

Question

I am trying to run a simple Python script which runs the ipconfig /all command as a proof of concept.

You can find it below:

from subprocess import PIPE, run my_command = "ipconfig /all" result = run(my_command, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, universal_newlines=True) print(result.stdout, result.stderr)

But I didn't suceed to run it, I tryed both with the command line and by clicking on it but it open a cmd window for 1 second, and then close it so I cannot even read it.

Edit: I am using Python 3.7 and my script is called ipconfig.py

You're missing shell=True (though a better approach is to proceed with shell=False and instead use my_command=['ipconfig', '/all']) — tripleee
– tripleee, Commented Apr 22, 2019 at 11:37
@Ced You've probably found it already, but anything like what's said in this answer is enough — Julio Cezar Silva
– Julio Cezar Silva, Commented Apr 22, 2019 at 12:56

CristiFati · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-22 12:58:23Z

Apparently, your problem is not related to the script itself, but rather to Python interpreter invocation. Check [Python 3.Docs]: How do I run a Python program under Windows?.
A general approach would be to:

Open a cmd (PS) window in your script directory
Launch Python (using its full path: check [Python 3.Docs]: Using Python on Windows for more details) on your module (e.g.):
```
"C:\Program Files\Python37-64\python.exe" ipconfig.py 
```

Of course, there are many ways to improve things, like adding its installation directory in %PATH% (if not already there) in order to avoid specifying its full path every time ¹, but take one step at a time.

On the script side: check [Python 3.Docs]: subprocess.run(args, *, stdin=None, input=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, capture_output=False, shell=False, cwd=None, timeout=None, check=False, encoding=None, errors=None, text=None, env=None, universal_newlines=None) (and the examples):

Pass the arguments as a list:
```
my_command = ["ipconfig", "/all"] 
```
You might also want to check the command termination status (result.returncode)

1: If you didn't check Add Python 3.7 to PATH when installing it (check image from 2^nd URL), you have to add Python's path (C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37) manually. There are many resources on the web, here are 3:

sjw · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-22 12:15:44Z

Your code is working good. The problem is that the cmd closes the window too fast and you can't see the result. Just add a command to wait for your interaction before closing the window.

You can add this at the end of your code:

input("Press Enter to finish...")

Or pause the execution after completion:

import time

[at the end of the code pause for 5 seconds....]

time.sleep(5)

input("Press Enter to finish...") Works and fixed the issue while clicking thanks!

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