Rinzwind wrote:
> Something like this:
> progname = 'c:\tmp\myprog.exe arg1 '+'-- help'
> os.system(r'progname)
Well, other than the ways in which it wouldn't work:
1. "arg1" doesn't get substituted with anything, if that's what you
meant, but rather is inserted as the literal string "arg1". If
Hello,
Something like this:
progname = 'c:\tmp\myprog.exe arg1 '+'-- help'
os.system(r'progname)
should work too.
So you should be able to change progname to any location you need to
start it and all the args to whatever is needed.
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I posted this earlier on yahoo groups and then realized that the most
recent post was 2003. What I didn't realize is that it posted to this
group so I posted it again.
The other post is:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6dc7c53dd00b99ed/da05733f4a83399f#da05733
I would like to execute a windows program from python and wait for it
to finish before returning to the python script.
The script I want to run has a set number of arguments.
The following does work fine:
os.system(r"c:\tmp\myprog.exe arg1 arg2 arg3")
The problem I have is that the path to mypro
