On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompk...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Neither Python proper nor Popen() are actually executing the program - the > Windows shell/command interpreter does that (command.com or cmd.exe, > depending on your Windows version); Popen() is just a mechanism for making > the request, waiting for a response, and processing the result when it > comes. > I wasn't very clear here: instead of "the Windows shell/command interpreter does that..." I should have said "the underlying operating system/shell does that..." There are versions of Python for many platforms, and Python code is intended to be as cross-platform as possible, so if you were running some other operating system on your machine, Popen() would be passing your request to... whatever. And if you were running, say, Linux, and trying to execute a Windows program... that wouldn't work either. (Unless you told Popen to pass it through WINE, but I'm not even sure that's possible. There isn't an equivalent to WINE for running Linux executables under Windows, so far as I can Google.) -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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