On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:08:24 -0000,"Frank Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I cannot seem to spawn a subprocess. The subprocess does not seem to be run. > >Attached are my two files. There is a main.py file and a subprocess.py file. >They simpy print their names. > >Can anyone suggest a reason? > Your code works properly for me, once I adjust the paths. You do have a backslash problem in there, in that your path to Python needs another backslash after the c:, but it will accidentally work because \p is not a recognized escape character. C:\tmp>type main.py # Main script import os print("main") os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, 'c:\\apps\\python24\\python.exe',('python.exe','c:\\tmp\\subprocess.py')) print("exit") C:\tmp>type subprocess.py print("subprocess") C:\tmp>main.py main subprocess exit C:\tmp> There is a standard module called subprocess, but that shouldn't affect this. You're sure that your subprocess.py script lives in the root of your hard disk? You may not be aware that "print" is a statement, not a function. Those parentheses aren't really doing what you think they're doing. This does what you expect: print("main") because a single item in parentheses is taken to be the same as the item. But this: print("a","b") does something quite different. That creates a two-element tuple and prints that. C:\tmp>python Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print("a","b") ('a', 'b') >>> print "a","b" a b >>> -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32