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A 'For' loop in my Python 2.7.8 script contains:

ODate = subprocess.check_output(['exiftool', '-datedimeoriginal', image.jpg])

Under Windows 7, a Windows console window opens and quickly closes again each time this statement is executed. Not so when running on my Mac (OS X 9).

How can I prevent this?

P.S. ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

David Heffernan
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  • possible duplicate of [Running a process in pythonw with Popen without a console](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1813872/running-a-process-in-pythonw-with-popen-without-a-console) – simonzack Oct 14 '14 at 08:19
  • An alternative to hiding the window is to set the process [creation flags](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684863%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) to `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` or `DETACHED_PROCESS`. See [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7006424/205580). – Eryk Sun Oct 14 '14 at 08:26
  • It's probably exiftool that is doing this. Far better to avoid calling exiftool. – David Heffernan Oct 14 '14 at 08:27

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You don't need to do any of this, launching a separate process for each image to get its EXIF data. Instead, just use Python directly:

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('image.jpg')
exif_data = img._getexif()
date = exif_data[36867] # DateTimeOriginal

From here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4765242/4323

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  • Please mark it as a duplicate instead of copying the answer. – simonzack Oct 14 '14 at 08:20
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    @simonzack: I hardly think this is a duplicate given how different the OP presented the problem. It wasn't a question about EXIF at all really, until I made it one. :) – John Zwinck Oct 14 '14 at 08:21