I want to use python as a "shell like" program, and execute an external program in it( such as mv, cp, tar, gnuplot)
os.execv("/bin/bash",("/usr/bin/gnuplot",'-c "gnuplot < plot.tmp"'))
I would suggest checking out the "subprocess" module, new in Python 2.4. It subsumes the functionality of most of the alternative methods such as execv and spawn and os.system(), and provides an arguably cleaner interface.
-Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
