Set Windows command-line terminal title in Python

I am not aware of a way to change the cmd window title from within the script.

However, you can set the title when launching the script if you use the start command.

If starting the Idle-shell is an option instead of the cmd shell:

idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-e] [-s] [-t title] [arg] ...

-c command  run this command
-d          enable debugger
-e          edit mode; arguments are files to be edited
-s          run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP first
-t title    set title of shell window

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")

On Windows, a simple console command will suffice:

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

Nice and easy.

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.

Comparison of the posted system() & windll-based methods

tying to add a small quantitative comparison of latency overheads associated with two of the posted methods:

|>>> from zmq import Stopwatch
|>>> aSWX = Stopwatch()

|>>> from os import system
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  15149L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  15347L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  15000L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  14674L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  14774L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  14551L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  14633L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  15202L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();system( 'TITLE os_SHELL_CMD_TITLE_TXT');aSWX.stop()  14889L [us]

|>>> from ctypes import windll
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()   5767L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()    643L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()    573L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()    749L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()    689L [us]
|>>> aSWX.start();windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleA('DLL');aSWX.stop()    651L [us]

In cases, where one might spend about a half of millisecond ( but not some tens of that ) the windll.kernel32 method seems promising and may serve better for an alternative display of a WatchDOG / StateVARs / ProgressLOG / auto-self-diagnostic messages, being efficiently displayed in a soft real-time need, during long running processes.

It is now possible to change the window title from within any language via outputting a standard escape sequence to the console (stdout). Here’s a working example from a batch file Change command prompt to only show current directory name however just printing ESC close-bracket 2 semicolon your-title-here BEL (control-G) will do it. Also an easily adapted PHP example:

function windowTitle($title)
  {printf("33]2;%s07", $title);}

In place of XYZ, enter the window name you want to keep.

import os
os.system("title XYZ")

Use:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTitleW('new title')

Or:

import os
os.system('title new title')

Using OS module To interact with the terminal

1. Import the library – import os
2. Interact with the terminal to change title – os.system('title your_tile')

Explanation:

So if you open your terminal and type title your_title is will change the terminal title to your_title

In Python the OS.system() is used to type into the terminal

This is how you will change title of terminal with Python