starting programs from python script on windows

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen at gmail.com> (BV) wrote:

>BV> Hi,
>BV> i want to automate starting programs on my windows machine and i want
>BV> to do it with windows.
>BV> This is a sample script:

>BV> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
>BV> import time

>BV> print " Starting app 1"
>BV> time.sleep(1)
>BV> try:
>BV>     p1 = Popen(["C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE"],

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