Launch file from Python

[Arnau Sanchez]

kyosohma at gmail.com escribió:

> That's just the exit status or run status, if I recall correctly. I
> think 0 (i.e. False) means it didn't run properly and anything else is
> True, or ok. Something like that. 

The other way: 0 means "ok" while everything else means error (at least in 
UNIX). The reason is clear: there is usually only one way to do things well, but 
many to fail :-)

> Technically speaking, you should
> probably switch to using the subprocess module as it is replacing that
> os module's functionality: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-subprocess.html

Correct, subprocess replaces low-level os.system, os.popen*, os.spawn*, popen* 
functions.