Spawn Python from Python with arguments?

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:20:05 +0000, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> I'm trying to run another python program from python and pass command line
> arguments to the spawned python program.
> 
>     cmd = "python"
>     args = ["python", "child.py", "argument1", "argument2"]
>     pid = os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, cmd, args)
> 
> child.py runs, but within it, sys.argv[1] raises exception.
> 
> Typing following commmand at terminal prompt works as expected:
> 
>     python child.py argument1 argument2
> 
> and
> 
>     args = ["python", "child.py", "-c", "argument1", "argument2"]
> 
> doesn't help.  Anybody know how to do this?

I was able to fix this myself by changing spawnv to spawnvp.