Terminal Emulator for Windows in tkinter

Question

I was looking for a way to embed python shell inside tkinter, and had no luck finding.

I have searched this up and saw this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30222807/4934971

Which contains:

#!/usr/bin/python
from Tkinter import *
import os
root = Tk()
termf = Frame(root, width = 400, height = 200)
termf.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
wid = termf.winfo_id()
os.system('xterm -into %d -geometry 80x20 -sb -e python &' % wid)
root.mainloop()

But running it on windows will only return an error because there's no xterm. Though I would like to know of there is any way this can be done in windows.

• implmentor: I guess you'd have to install a terminal emulator which works on Windows and launch that instead of xterm.
• Bryan Oakley: Are you wanting a terminal emulator as described in the title, or a python shell as described in the question? Those are two different things.
• Ako Cruz: @BryanOakley im sorry, a python shell.
• Ako Cruz: @bleakgadfly any recommendation for embedding to tkinter if possible? but still, thank you very much for your reply!
• Eric Levieil: Have you seen stackoverflow.com/questions/5597836/… ?

Answer 1

Tkinter does not make it easy to create a python shell within a window; however, if you did not save your script as [.pyw], then upon executing the program you will get both a Tkinter window, and a console window.

Any commands dictated in normal python code, such as print, will print to the console. The closest you are going to get is by creating a window that allows actions to happen in the console window.