Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/09/2014 09:46 PM, Tim Golden wrote: On 09/06/2014 23:31, Ethan Furman wrote: On 06/09/2014 03:21 PM, Josh English wrote: So this quirk is coming from PyScripter, which is a shame, because I don't think it's under development, so it won't be fixed. The nice thing about Python code is

Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-09 Thread Josh English
On Saturday, June 7, 2014 1:24:43 PM UTC-7, Tim Golden wrote: I'm not 100% sure what your scenario is, but you can certainly help yourself and us by running the same test on the raw interpreter and then under PyScripter to determine if the behaviour is to do with IDLE or with Python

Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-09 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/09/2014 03:21 PM, Josh English wrote: So this quirk is coming from PyScripter, which is a shame, because I don't think it's under development, so it won't be fixed. The nice thing about Python code is you can at least fix your copy. :) -- ~Ethan~ --

Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/06/2014 23:31, Ethan Furman wrote: On 06/09/2014 03:21 PM, Josh English wrote: So this quirk is coming from PyScripter, which is a shame, because I don't think it's under development, so it won't be fixed. The nice thing about Python code is you can at least fix your copy. :) IIRC,

Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Josh English joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using os.startfile(filepath) to launch files I've created in Python, mostly Excel spreadsheets, text files, or PDFs. When I run my script from my IDE, the file opens as I expect. But if I go back to

Re: os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-07 Thread Tim Golden
On 06/06/2014 21:34, Josh English wrote: I have been using os.startfile(filepath) to launch files I've created in Python, mostly Excel spreadsheets, text files, or PDFs. When I run my script from my IDE, the file opens as I expect. But if I go back to my script and re-run it, the external

os.startfile hanging onto the launched app, or my IDE?

2014-06-06 Thread Josh English
I have been using os.startfile(filepath) to launch files I've created in Python, mostly Excel spreadsheets, text files, or PDFs. When I run my script from my IDE, the file opens as I expect. But if I go back to my script and re-run it, the external program (either Excel, Notepad, or Acrobat