Python on Windows opens new window

Question

Here's the problem, after installing Python (3.6, 3.7, 3.8) on Microsoft Windows when you invoke it, it opens in a new window. This question has been raised before, and replies talk about modifying the code to pause the output or keep the program running so it doesn't close the window. I can not modify every python package ever made for windows compatability.

My problem is that this is not how Python works on *nix platforms. Surely there must be a way to get python to execute within a command prompt ?

My immediate issue is that I loose the console output on so many python programs. From Jupyter Notebook to AWS GRC (remote-codecommit).

-=-=-=-=-= ANSWER =-=-=-=-=-

After much frustration, it turns out the problem was related to account privileges.

The behaviour above occurred when a user with elevated rights executed Python.

When I log out and run with another user that is a local admin, it now behaves normally.

I cant tell you the exact difference between elevated rights and local admin, but there is something in the permissioning that effects how Python is run on Windows.

Answer 1

This happened to me when the current directory of the terminal didn't exist (was deleted/renamed after the terminal was started).

Solution: cd to some directory.