>>Umm, so just put the ampersand at the end of the command string and >>call os.system()
Not sure what the point of this variation would be if os is being deprecated along with commands... >>However both os.system and the commands module are deprecated in >>favour >>of the new(ish) subprocess module where the equivalent incantation >>would be: >>p = subprocess.Popen("gnome-terminal", shell=True)HTH,-- Alan Good to know! I will start using this instead. -Sam _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor