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[wicked locust]

I made a python script, but it instantly closes if I try to run it by double clicking. when I run it through cmd, that doesn’t happen. Yes, I have multiple inputs in my file. and I am also using sqlite3.

[paper dirge]

@wicked locust

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[wide cloak]

that's normal behavior

it's not python that's closing; it's the cmd.exe (or powershell.exe) window that it's running in

well python is "closing", in the sense that the python process exits. But that's what you'd want.

[wicked locust]

it works on win10 but not on win11 yeah thats reasonable

[wicked locust]

no? how?

[wide cloak]

there might be a way to tell Windows to not do that. But if it were me, I'd just not start it by clicking an icon.

[wicked locust]

how am I supposed to run it then?

[wide cloak]

unless your python program is a server that you intend to run forever, it is likely doing some work, and then exiting when that work is finished.

[wide cloak]

when I run it through cmd, that doesn’t happen.

that's what I'd do

[wicked locust]

you did read the description, right?

[wide cloak]

yes?

what detail have I missed?

[wicked locust]

well I have multiple inputs

it shouldn’t

[wide cloak]

I honestly don't know what "multiple inputs" means

[wicked locust]

literally

input()

[wide cloak]

oh, so it's interactive.

[wicked locust]

which requires inputs from the yser

user

[wide cloak]

I don't think that's relevant though

[wicked locust]

yes

[wide cloak]

what's relevant is: do you want the program to run forever, or not?

[wicked locust]

I mean how am I supposed to make it into a console application then?

[wide cloak]

it is already a console application 🙂

[wicked locust]

yes, unless the user wants it closed tho

[wide cloak]

ok, does your program have a "while True" or similar in it?

[wicked locust]

well if it closes instantly and I need to open it through cmd there is no reason to call it that

[wicked locust]

yep

multiple

[wide cloak]

that's the accepted terminology

can you post the code? Maybe the real problem is that it's exiting unexpectedly

and since the window goes away, you can't read any error message that it might have printed

[wicked locust]

here is the full code:

[wicked locust]

i can run it through VS code without any compiling errors

and it can be ran on windows 10

[wide cloak]

I am still waiting to see the code

[wicked locust]

how do I make the ‘

on a phone

[wide cloak]

no idea 😦

if you're serious about programming, you use a real computer.

[wicked locust]

i do have one, I just cant reach it en

rn

[wide cloak]

well wait until you can, then re-ask the question 🤷

[wicked locust]

yhe code was done on my computer

import sqlite3

con = sqlite3.connect("password_manager.db")
cur = con.cursor()

cur.execute("""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS informations (
title text,
username text,
password text
)""")

cur.execute("""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS masterpassword (
masterpassword text
)""")

result = cur.execute("""SELECT masterpassword FROM masterpassword""")

apass = ""
setpass = result.fetchone()

if setpass:
print("A Password Already Exists")
while True:
print("Please Enter Your Password.")
apass = input()
if apass == setpass[0]:
print("Password Is Correct.")
break
else:
print("Incorrect Input.")
else:
print("You haven't Set A Masterpassword Yet. Select A New Password:")
while True:
newpass = input()
if len(newpass) < 7:
print("Your Password Must Be At Least 8 Characters Long.")
else:
print("Successfully set your new password.")
break
cur.execute("INSERT INTO masterpassword VALUES (?)", [newpass])

while True:
a = 0
print("--------------------------------------------------------")
print("What would you like to do?")
print("1)Browse through Informations.")
print("2)Add Information.")
print("3)Close App")
choice = str(input())
if choice == "1":
title = cur.execute("""SELECT title FROM informations""").fetchall()
username = cur.execute("""SELECT username FROM informations""").fetchall()
password = cur.execute("""SELECT password FROM informations""").fetchall()
if title:
for i in title:
print("---------------------------")
print(title[a][0])
print(username[a][0])
print(password[a][0])
a += 1
print("---------------------------")
else:
print("--------------------------------------------------------")
print("""
_ _ _
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|| || ||
() () ()
""")
print("You Have NO logged account information.")

elif choice == "2":
    print("What is the account branded? e.g. Youtube Account/Twitter Account")
    title = input()
    print("What is the account username?")
    username = input()
    print("What is the account password?")
    password = input()
    cur.execute("""INSERT INTO informations VALUES (?, ?, ?)""", (title, username, password))
    con.commit()
elif choice == "3":
    break
else:
    print("Invalid Option.Try Again.")

con.commit()
con.close()

[paper dirge]

Hey @wicked locust!

It looks like you are trying to paste code into this channel.

You seem to be using the wrong symbols to indicate where the code block should start. The correct symbols would be ```, not """.

Here is an example of how it should look:
```
Hello, world!
```

This will result in the following:

Hello, world!```
You can **edit your original message** to correct your code block.

[wide cloak]

that should be OK. Gimme a few while I look at it

I can't prove it, but I suspect your problem is that something in your loop has raised an exception.

[wicked locust]

import sqlite3

con = sqlite3.connect("password_manager.db")
cur = con.cursor()

cur.execute("""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS informations (
            title text,
            username text,
            password text
            )""")

cur.execute("""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS masterpassword (
            masterpassword text
            )""")

result = cur.execute("""SELECT masterpassword FROM masterpassword""")

apass = ""
setpass = result.fetchone()

if setpass:
    print("A Password Already Exists")
    while True:
        print("Please Enter Your Password.")
        apass = input()
        if apass == setpass[0]:
            print("Password Is Correct.")
            break
        else:
            print("Incorrect Input.")
else:
    print("You haven't Set A Masterpassword Yet. Select A New Password:")
    while True:
        newpass = input()
        if len(newpass) < 7:
            print("Your Password Must Be At Least 8 Characters Long.")
        else:
            print("Successfully set your new password.")
            break
    cur.execute("INSERT INTO masterpassword VALUES (?)", [newpass])    

while True:
    a = 0
    print("--------------------------------------------------------")
    print("What would you like to do?")
    print("1)Browse through Informations.")
    print("2)Add Information.")
    print("3)Close App")
    choice = str(input())
    if choice == "1":
        title = cur.execute("""SELECT title FROM informations""").fetchall()
        username = cur.execute("""SELECT username FROM informations""").fetchall()
        password = cur.execute("""SELECT password FROM informations""").fetchall()
        if title:
            for i in title:
                print("---------------------------")
                print(title[a][0])
                print(username[a][0])
                print(password[a][0])
                a += 1
                print("---------------------------")
        else:
            print("--------------------------------------------------------")
            print("""
             _   _   _ 
            | | | | | |
            | | | | | |
            |_| |_| |_|
            (_) (_) (_)
            """)
            print("You Have NO logged account information.")
            
    elif choice == "2":
        print("What is the account branded? e.g. Youtube Account/Twitter Account")
        title = input()
        print("What is the account username?")
        username = input()
        print("What is the account password?")
        password = input()
        cur.execute("""INSERT INTO informations VALUES (?, ?, ?)""", (title, username, password))
        con.commit()
    elif choice == "3":
        break
    else:
        print("Invalid Option.Try Again.")

con.commit()
con.close()

[wide cloak]

Since you don't catch exceptions, that will break the loop and exit the program, and that will close the window.

[wicked locust]

uhm why does it work on windows10 tho?

[wide cloak]

no idea

I don't use Windows

[wicked locust]

linux or mac?

[wide cloak]

both

I use linux for cloud servers, and mac for my laptop

[wicked locust]

linux on a mac?

[worn glade]

just tried it locally and it works (well, at the very least it doesn't close instantly)

[wicked locust]

oh alright

[wide cloak]

I use "linux on a mac" occasionally if I'm too lazy to deploy my code and run it on Linux

[wicked locust]

are you using win10 or 11?

[worn glade]

linux but i doubt it matters

[wide cloak]

well it might.

Perhaps there's something in there that, on Windows 11, causes an exception.

[wicked locust]

well it worjs on win10 but not on 11 😭

i had a friend try it too

[ionic root]

On Windows its what way you run it

[wide cloak]

@wicked locust do this on Windows 11: start a command window, then at the prompt, type py -3 c:/users/path/to/this/program.py and see what happens

[wicked locust]

but when I convert it to exe it doesnt work on work on win10 too 😦

[wide cloak]

if you're lucky, it'll die with an exception message, and then we can figure out what to do from that.

[wide cloak]

what do you mean by "convert it to exe"?

[wicked locust]

pyinstaller —onefile file.py

[wide cloak]

oh.

I've never actually gotten pyinstaller to work, and I strongly suspect that it adds a lot of complexity

I wouldn't use it if I didn't absolutely have to

[wicked locust]

but else your code is litteraly free for everyone to grab thats why I convert to exe

[wide cloak]

mm hmm

I simply don't worry about people stealing my code. Problem solved.

[wicked locust]

mostly my friends do it and brag on me so thats why I do it

[wide cloak]

🤷

[winter relic]

Unfortunately that's the same with an exe

[wicked locust]

doesnt really matter

[wide cloak]

up to you -- bragging rights with your friends, or simple reliable code.

[wicked locust]

they can be converted back to py?

[wicked locust]

yh makes sense

[winter relic]

An exe can be reverse engineered to get the source code

Especially with using pyinstaller

[wicked locust]

ooh

okay but what about my problem?

[winter relic]

I'd run the executable in a cmd window

[wicked locust]

yeah when I do that it works dine

fine

it just opens like an application

like it is intended

[winter relic]

Where's the problem?

[wicked locust]

when I open it by double clicking the terminal opens and closes

and the application sort of dies

[winter relic]

screen record it

[wicked locust]

well thats not really possible

[winter relic]

then pause it when it's open and see what the error is

why?

[wicked locust]

well my laptop is dead and I am going to sleep in a little while

but I do have the code

and the file

[winter relic]

oh ok

well when you have the time, that's what I do

Screen record it and see what's happening

I'm also going to sleep so I can't run it rn

[wicked locust]

so would you be up in about 8 hours?

i mean I would probably take longer too

lets say 9-10 hours

[winter relic]

I would, but I have an extremely tough day tomorrow so I won't be around to help much, sorry

But other people may be able to

[wicked locust]

i am sure other people can help, thanks tho

will the channel be closed?

by tomorrow?

[winter relic]

uhhhhh no clue, you'll have to ask someone else on that

you can always open a new one with a link to this

[wicked locust]

i’ll just open another one

yeah

thabks

gn

[cerulean willow]

Does the problem only happen when you turn your file to exe?

[paper dirge]

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