On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Alan Gauld wrote:
> > - I am trying to call up an external program with something like a > > "Shell" command - can not find a way of doing this (in windows) > > Look in the os module, there are several options depending on exactly > what you need to do. The simplest option is system(). To read the output > look at the various popen() and for more sophisticated options try the > exec() family. > > If using system() on DOS you might look at the START DOS command too for > the options available there. Hi Alan and Lobster, I hope the plethora of choices isn't overwhelming! *grin* As of Python 2.4, there is a nicer external process caller in the new 'subprocess' module: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-subprocess.html It tries to consolidate the major functionality of the other methods. I haven't played with it much, but according to the documentation, it looks very capable. Best of wishes to you! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor