execvp on Windows

[Sandeep Gupta]

It turns out that this is a known issue:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=43
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"Sandeep Gupta" <sandeep182 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:sz0U8.16135$eF5.561799 at twister.austin.rr.com...
> On Linux, os.execvp(executable, args) replaces the current process, while
on
> Windows, it seems to spawn a new process and then complete the current
> process.  On Windows, this means I get back the command prompt followed by
> the output of my executable.
> For example,
> ======================
> D:\>python
> Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import os
> >>> os.execvp("python",["python"])
>
> D:\>Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
> ======================
> On Windows, is there any way to delay the completion of the first process
> until the execvp executable returns?  One idea is to use os.spawn*, but I
> was looking for others.
>
> Thanks
> Sandeep
>
>