play a midi file from the interpreter?

[Elaine Jackson]

Could you sketch me a useage example? I'm finding the documentation extremely
sparse. I've heard of 'pipes', but I don't actually know what they are.

"Max M" <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote in message news:4132CFE1.20004 at mxm.dk...
| Elaine Jackson wrote:
| > (How) can you make it so that a function invoked in the python interpreter
can
| > run another program? (Like the webbrowser module does, only not with a web
| > browser.) If it matters the OS is Windows98 and the specific aim in mind is
to
| > have a function that saves some data as a midi file and then causes the said
| > midi file to play.
|
|
| Use the popen() call in the os module.
|
| regards Max M