Hiding Console Output

[Larry Bates]

Kkaa wrote:
> I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
> batch file like this:
> 
> os.system('x.exe')
> 
> The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
> want to prevent from being displayed.  Is there a way to prevent the
> output of x.exe from python?
> 
Check out the subprocess module.  With it you can control more than
with os.system().

-Larry