how to run an external program...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Larry Bates wrote:

> In addition to what Philippe suggested, take a look at the
> subprocess module as well (if you are on Python 2.4 or
> greater).

footnote: the subprocess module is available for 2.2 and 2.3 as well.
a pure-python version (for unix and compatibles) can be found here:

    http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/

windows binaries here:

    http://effbot.org/downloads/#subprocess

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