gregarican wrote:
What's the easiest and cleanest way of having PyQt bring up an
external application?
You can also go the Qt way and use QProcess. This also gives you cross-platform
communication and process killing capabilities which are pretty hard to obtain
(see the mess in Python with
Giovanni Bajo wrote:
You can also go the Qt way and use QProcess. This also gives you
cross-platform
communication and process killing capabilities which are pretty hard to obtain
(see the mess in Python with popen[1234]/subprocess). You also get nice
signals
from the process which
What's the easiest and cleanest way of having PyQt bring up an external
application? In this case I am looking to launch Internet Explorer and
bring up a specific URL. I don't care about tracking the IE process'
activity and don't want PyQt to wait until the browser is closed. I
tried the
gregarican wrote:
[os.system using the start command on Windows]
When I use this the PyQt app freezes up and only when I forcefully
close it does the browser window pop up.
What does os.startfile do when invoked with the URL? My impression was
that the startfile function - available only on
Paul Boddie wrote:
What does os.startfile do when invoked with the URL? My impression was
that the startfile function - available only on Windows - doesn't wait
for the command to finish, but I don't run Windows and can't test this.
Any feedback would be appreciated, though, since it's part
