running non-python progs from python

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Spiffy" wrote:

> The 'Learning Python' book talks about using the os.system call, but I
> haven't been able to get this to work.

"it doesn't work" is a really lousy way to describe a problem  what did you
do, what happened, and what did you expect would happen instead?

also see:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

> How can I run this other program from a python script and pass the filename
> as a parameter?

    import os

    filename = "myfile"
    os.system("program %s" % filename)

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