Close IDLE display window?

[micseydel]

IDLE is open source and largely (entirely?) written in Python. If you want to dive into it, you can definitely find a way to do it. But generally, it sounds like you want things from IDLE that it is not built to support.

You haven't elaborated on why IDLE is preferable over command line. Perhaps if you did, we could pose an alternative. For example, you might use pythonw.exe instead of python.exe and write your own GUI code to accomplish whatever IDLE is doing for you. You also might be able to use a batch file instead of the direct Python script to accommodate any undesirable behavior from command line.

[metulburr]

I do know that there is also no such thing as CLS to clear it either.

CLS on windows command prompt or close on linux terminal clears the system terminal. But IDLE is just an IDE. The >>> in IDLE meshes output and python intpereter input. ITs not a system terminal. If you dont like that IDE, then dont use it. There are hundreds of IDE's that are better than IDLE anyways.

If you want no remnants of the program afterwords. Click X and be done with it. The options are pythonw.exe, build an exe out of your python program, or run it in a terminal/command prompt.

[Larz60+]

IDLE is a minimal system. It doesn't contain hooks that will do what you are attempting to do,
unless you kill the process as suggested by Metulburr (which I agree is ridiculous)
IDLE is a poor choice to start with,see: https://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/1...would-fix/

[Emerogork]

At the moment, it depends on what the Computer Science department at the University decides what is on the computers. I just started on Python/IDLE two weeks ago. I have started to check Kivy and for HTML PhoneGap.

I am sure that IDLE is the EDLIN of editors.....

[metulburr]

Then just use a command prompt/terminal to execute the program. That would be the easiest solution for you.