Merge from 3.x: PR #5635

Fixes #5495

Author: ccordoba12

Diff for: bootstrap.py

@@ -28,12 +28,15 @@
     usage="python bootstrap.py [options] [-- spyder_options]",
     epilog="""\
 Arguments for Spyder's main script are specified after the --
-symbol (example: `python bootstrap.py -- --show-console`).
+symbol (example: `python bootstrap.py -- --hide-console`).
 Type `python bootstrap.py -- --help` to read about Spyder
 options.""")
 parser.add_option('--gui', default=None,
                   help="GUI toolkit: pyqt5 (for PyQt5), pyqt (for PyQt4) or "
                        "pyside (for PySide, deprecated)")
+parser.add_option('--show-console', action='store_true', default=False,
+                  help="(Deprecated) Does nothing, now the default behavior "
+                  "is to show the console")
 parser.add_option('--hide-console', action='store_true',
                   default=False, help="Hide parent console window (Windows only)")
 parser.add_option('--test', dest="test", action='store_true', default=False,
@@ -154,9 +157,13 @@
 
 # --- Executing Spyder
 
-if not options.hide_console and os.name == 'nt':
-    print("0x. Enforcing parent console (Windows only)")
-    sys.argv.append("--show-console")  # Windows only: show parent console
+if options.show_console:
+    print("(Deprecated) --show console does nothing, now the default behavior "
+          "is to show the console, use --hide-console if you want to hide it")
+
+if options.hide_console and os.name == 'nt':
+    print("0x. Hiding parent console (Windows only)")
+    sys.argv.append("--hide-console")  # Windows only: show parent console
 
 print("04. Running Spyder")
 from spyder.app import start

Diff for: doc/options.rst

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Options:
                         administrative privileges)
   -w WORKING_DIRECTORY, --workdir=WORKING_DIRECTORY
                         Default working directory
-  --show-console        Do not hide parent console window (Windows)
+  --hide-console        Hide parent console window (Windows)
+  --show-console        (Deprecated) Does nothing, now the default behavior is to show the console
   --multithread         Internal console is executed in another thread
                         (separate from main application thread)
   --profile             Profile mode (internal test, not related with Python

Diff for: spyder/app/cli_options.py

@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ def get_options():
                            "administrative privileges)")
     parser.add_option('-w', '--workdir', dest="working_directory", default=None,
                       help="Default working directory")
+    parser.add_option('--hide-console', action='store_true', default=False,
+                      help="Hide parent console window (Windows)")
     parser.add_option('--show-console', action='store_true', default=False,
-                      help="Do not hide parent console window (Windows)")
+                      help="(Deprecated) Does nothing, now the default behavior "
+                      "is to show the console")
     parser.add_option('--multithread', dest="multithreaded",
                       action='store_true', default=False,
                       help="Internal console is executed in another thread "

Diff for: spyder/app/mainwindow.py

@@ -3039,8 +3039,13 @@ def main():
     # otherwise, optparse won't be able to exit if --help option is passed
     options, args = get_options()
 
+    if options.show_console:
+        print("(Deprecated) --show console does nothing, now the default "
+              " behavior is to show the console, use --hide-console if you "
+              "want to hide it")
+
     if set_attached_console_visible is not None:
-        set_attached_console_visible(options.show_console
+        set_attached_console_visible(not options.hide_console
                                      or options.reset_config_files
                                      or options.reset_to_defaults
                                      or options.optimize or bool(DEBUG))