OS commands

[kaufman at lunarcorp.com]

In article <mailman.970072487.8899.python-list at python.org>,
  "Matthew Banham" <matb at photond.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Just a quickie from a python newbie (who couldn't find this easily in
the
> manual and is a bit lazy!). From the python interpreter command
prompt, how
> would I execute a DOS command? For example, I use MS Windows 2000 and
I want
> to be able to run the dos command "myprog.exe" (i.e. to run the file
> "myprog.exe"). Any ideas are extremely welcome :o)
>

I am not sure Win2000 has this utility, but check out the START.EXE
command. Under Win98SE it can be used in the os.system() call thusly:

os.system("start myprog.exe")

DUane
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