Open the command line within a script

[Tim Golden]

[Ivan Shevanski]
| Hey this is probally a noob question but here goes. . .How 
| could I open the 
| command line inside of a python script?  Would I have to use COM?

(Assuming you're on Windows from your reference to COM).
Depending on exactly what you want to do with it, you could just do:

<code>
import os

shell = os.environ['COMSPEC']

os.system (shell)
# or 
os.startfile (shell)

</code>

TJG

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