bug in os.system?

[nicksjacobson at yahoo.com]

OK, I give up.  Why does workaround #2 work?

Also, I didn't realize this before, but when you call os.spawnv, the
argument list you pass starts with the name of the executable you're
calling!  When you call a program from cmd.exe, that program name is
the first parameter automatically.  But with spawnv, you do that
manually!

Anyway, thanks for your help!