Hiding Console Output

[John Savage]

"Kkaa" <onlyafly at gmail.com> writes:
>I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
>batch file like this:
>
>os.system('x.exe')

Is .exe really a batch file?

>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?

To consign stdout to nul in MSDOS you can use os.system('x.exe>nul')
so that will probably work for windows, too. This works regardless
of x.exe or x.bat so should do for whatever type of prog you are wanting
it for.
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John Savage                   (my news address is not valid for email)