spawn process in a new console window

Laurent Pointal laurent.pointal at limsi.fr
Thu Mar 15 05:12:34 EDT 2007


gregpinero at gmail.com a écrit :
> On Mar 14, 9:56 pm, egla... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a script that launches a sequence of other programs, some GUI,
>> some console.  I'd like the console programs to launch in their own
>> console window, instead of all of them sharing the script's console.
>> How do I do that?
>>
> 
> Would the subprocess module help here?  It's available in Python 2.4
> onwards.  I think it's supposed to be a one stop shop for all your
> external application launching needs (Python group, please correct me
> if I'm wrong here).
> 
> -Greg
> 

Try to use "start"

>>> import os
>>> os.system("start cmd")

Open a new console with a cmd shell in it.

See start documentation here http://www.ss64.com/nt/start.html
Or typing help start on the command line.



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