PyQt calling an external app?

Giovanni Bajo noway at sorry.com
Tue Jan 10 03:55:05 EST 2006


gregarican wrote:

> What's the easiest and cleanest way of having PyQt bring up an
> external application?

You can also go the Qt way and use QProcess. This also gives you cross-platform
communication and process killing capabilities which are pretty hard to obtain
(see the mess in Python with popen[1234]/subprocess). You also get nice signals
from the process which interact well in a Qt environment.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo





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