Re: [python-win32] system() fails, win32process succeeds

2005-06-29 Thread Ray Schumacher
Hi Roger, At 12:42 PM 6/29/2005, Roger Upole wrote: >I ran into something similar a while back that turned out to be a deficiency >in the called >program. It wasn't taking into account the fact that it might not be able >to acquire resources in a timely manner. I think that is the case, but

[python-win32] system() fails, win32process succeeds

2005-06-29 Thread RayS
Someone might be interested: I ran across an unexpected process issue this week. We have a converter app that is part of a suite, when it runs it needs to call an external DOS exe briefly (the exe does bit-shifting in a file etc.) I originally used system(), but found that _if_ one other part