python - How can I open two consoles from a single script

Question

Apart from the scripts own console (which does nothing) I want to open two consoles and print the variables con1 and con2 in different consoles, How can I achieve this.

con1 = 'This is Console1'
con2 = 'This is Console2'

I've no idea how to achieve this and spent several hours trying to do so with modules such as subprocess but with no luck. I'm on windows by the way.

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Edit:

Would the threading module do the job? or is multiprocessing needed?

Eg:

Answer 1

If you don't want to reconsider your problem and use a GUI such as in @Kevin's answer then you could use subprocess module to start two new consoles concurrently and display two given strings in the opened windows:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import time
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE

messages = 'This is Console1', 'This is Console2'

# open new consoles
processes = [Popen([sys.executable, "-c", """import sys
for line in sys.stdin: # poor man's `cat`
    sys.stdout.write(line)
    sys.stdout.flush()
"""],
    stdin=PIPE, bufsize=1, universal_newlines=True,
    # assume the parent script is started from a console itself e.g.,
    # this code is _not_ run as a *.pyw file
    creationflags=CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE)
             for _ in range(len(messages))]

# display messages
for proc, msg in zip(processes, messages):
    proc.stdin.write(msg + "
")
    proc.stdin.flush()

time.sleep(10) # keep the windows open for a while

# close windows
for proc in processes:
    proc.communicate("bye
")

Here's a simplified version that doesn't rely on CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE:

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Show messages in two new console windows simultaneously."""
import sys
import platform
from subprocess import Popen

messages = 'This is Console1', 'This is Console2'

# define a command that starts new terminal
if platform.system() == "Windows":
    new_window_command = "cmd.exe /c start".split()
else:  #XXX this can be made more portable
    new_window_command = "x-terminal-emulator -e".split()

# open new consoles, display messages
echo = [sys.executable, "-c",
        "import sys; print(sys.argv[1]); input('Press Enter..')"]
processes = [Popen(new_window_command + echo + [msg])  for msg in messages]

# wait for the windows to be closed
for proc in processes:
    proc.wait()