How to run commands in command line from a script

[Peter Hansen]

Ivan Shevanski wrote:
> Well, the thing is that I was just using changing directories as an 
> example for running a name specific command, is the <long winded reply 
> here> the only way to run name specific commands? An example would be 
> (what I am actually trying to do) run the simply command
> mame s1945
> in the command line.  MAME is, for those of you that care, the multaple 
> arcade machine emulator and the command runs the classic game strikers 
> 1945.  I'm just trying to automate the tedious process of running it 
> through the command line.  By the way, thanks to everyone who responded 
> I'm really getting along here.

So basically "os.system" would have done exactly what you wanted if 
you'd tried it on "mame" instead of using "cd", for reasons we've now 
covered. :-)

-Peter