running windows 'start' cmd using spawnl

Wed Aug 23 14:26:34 EDT 2006

At Wednesday 23/8/2006 14:22, Tor Erik wrote:

>I need to start a program in a new cmd-window. To do this I need to
>execute: start [command]
>With os.system this is straight-forward.
>But I need to do it with spawnl and P_NOWAIT. I.e, asynchronously.
>The problem is that I need to know the path where start resides,
>which I'm unable to find.

On Windows NT, XP, 2003 and others, there is no "start.exe" 
executable; it's an internal command. It only exists on 95, 98, maybe ME.
Try the subprocess module.

Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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