Question: How to execute an EXE with Python?
Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto
fbarbuto at telusplanet.net
Tue Aug 27 21:11:42 EDT 2002
Hi Peter,
Now it is working: here is the code.
import os
os.chdir('c:/fausto/execs')
os.system('teste.exe')
That os.system('c:/fausto/execs/teste.exe') doesn't work.
Thanks to everybody who helped. Much appreciated!
---Fausto
"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message:
> "Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto" wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I need to write a Python script to call and execute a DOS
> > .EXE application. How do I do that? I know that there is
> > os.execv(path, args) and similars, but can't get the right
> > syntax. Suppose I have a C:/Progs/MyProg.EXE binary
> > that I want to execute. What would then be the correct
> > command?
>
> import os
> os.system('c:/progs/myprog.exe')
>
> might do the trick.
>
> -Peter
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