Launch file from Python

kyosohma at gmail.com kyosohma at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 15:39:03 EDT 2007


On Aug 8, 2:35 pm, Arnau Sanchez <ar... at ehas.org> wrote:
> kyoso... 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.

Figures...I couldn't find the docs on it though...and I do know that
some Windows programs return goofy numbers in the 1000s that mean it
worked fine. So, in other words, the return value isn't very helpful.

Mike




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