Blubaugh, David A. wrote: > To All, > > > I have been attempting to execute the following program within the > Python environment: > > Myprogram.exe, which means this is an executable file!! > > I would usually execute this program (with the appropriate arguments) by > going to following directory within MS-DOS (Windows XP): > > C:\myprogramfolder\run> Myprogram.exe 1 1 acc 0 > > > The executable would execute perfectly. > > > However, when I would try to execute the following lines of source code > within a python script file: > > import os > > os.system(r"C:\myprogramfolder\run\Myprogram.exe 1 1 acc 0") > > > The executable file would start to execute until it would print an error > stating that it cannot use a (.dat) file, which is located under the > following directory: > > > C:\myprogramfolder\run\inputs\io\control.dat > > > I believe I may be missing something here that prevents the executable > file working within python from utilizing this (.dat). The printed > final error is the following: > > ERROR opening inputs/io/control.dat > > Does anyone know what that could be ??
The program (myprogram.exe) is not looking for C:\myprogramfolder\run\inputs\io\control.dat, it's looking for inputs/io/control.dat relative to its current working directory. That will only work if the current working directory of the program is C:\myprogramfolder\run. Is it? -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
