On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Armstrong, Richard J. <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hello all,
>
>
>
> This is my first post to the [email protected] mailing list. I am in the
> process of switching from Matlab to Python and there is one task that I am
> having a hard time doing and cannot find the answer on the web. I want to
> write a script in python that will open up a windows dos program, send three
> inputs (file names) into program and then run it. I know one way to open up
> the dos program with os.system(r”c:\shake91.txt”) but cannot do the rest.
>

Use the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

untested, but should work:

subprocess.Popen([r'c:\shake91.txt', 'param1', 'paramN-1', 'paramN'])

if you want to communicate with the process you can add ,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) to the function call.

Check the docs for more info.
HTH,
Wayne
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