suppress opening command window after using os.system command

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:08:00 -0300, boriq <boris.smirnov at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> On 12 Jun., 11:51, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> En Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:28:13 -0300, boriq <boris.smir... at gmail.com>  
>> escribió:
>>
>> > I'm using in my script command os.system('command') on Windows XP.
>> > Each time the os.system command is used, python opens an empty ms-dos
>> > command window (the black one) and then closes it. So when in one
>> > script the os.system command 50 times is used, I see 50 black windows.
>>
>> > Is there a way of how to suppress this unnecessary command windows to
>> > be opened?
>>
>> Use the subprocess module instead of os.system
>>
>
> I'm on version 2.2.1 because of a program we use and it uses this
> version.
>
> and the subprocess module was implemented in version 2.4
>
> Any possibility to do it with the old stuff in ver 2.2.1?

Sure, depending on your needs, use any of the os.popen variants or any of  
the os.spawn variants.

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Gabriel Genellina