is perl better?

[Bernard Delmée]

jon c wrote:
> well the cammand is
> 
> java -hotspot -showversion ...... -classpath loads of entries 
> application-name
> 
> the total string is 6809 characters long.
> 

Maybe a workaround would be to use the CLASSPATH environment
variable instead of the command line -classpath parameter
(using os.environ from python). Hopefully this would make your
command line short enough not to hit any hard limit.

	os.environ[ 'CLASSPATH' ] = 'lib1.jar:...:libN.jar'
	os.system ( 'java -hotspot -showversion application-name' )


Hope this helps,

Bernard.