Python batching on XP

[Larry Bates]

You should take a look at the subprocess module
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-subprocess.html

-Larry Bates

durumdara at mailpont.hu wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I want to write a program that backup some databases in the night.
> 
> Pseudo like this:
> 
> try:
> if cmd('net stop dbservice'):
>   s=c://backup'+str(time.time())+'.zip'
>   if cmd('zipit c:\\database '+s):
>      if cmd('map drive \\\\backupdrive\\c$ y -user BACKUP -pwd SECRET'):
>         if cmd('copy '+s+' y:\\'):
>            LogSucc()
> finally:
>  cmd('net start dbservice')
> 
> I'm trying with os.system() commands.
> But that is printing the result message to the screen, not to a tuple,
> like commands.|getstatusoutput().
> I need to store this message, because I want to log everything that this
> program do/print; every of the messages.
> 
> So: how to I capture the screen, or how to I use
> |commands.|getstatusoutput() to access the Windows batch/cmd commands,
> and get their errors/statuses ?
> 
> Please help me !
> 
> Thanks for it: dd
> |