OS.SYSTEM ERROR !!!

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Tue Sep 30 14:08:16 EDT 2008


Blubaugh, David A. wrote:
> To All, 
> 
> 
> I have been attempting to execute the following program within the
> Python environment:
> 
> Myprogram.exe, which means this is an executable file!!
> 
> I would usually execute this program (with the appropriate arguments) by
> going to following directory within MS-DOS (Windows XP):
> 
> C:\myprogramfolder\run> Myprogram.exe 1 1 acc 0
> 
> 
> The executable would execute perfectly.  
> 
> 
> However, when I would try to execute the following lines of source code
> within a python script file:
> 
> import os
> 
> os.system(r"C:\myprogramfolder\run\Myprogram.exe 1 1 acc 0") 

Try this:

import subprocess
retval = subprocess.call(
     ['Myprogram.exe', '1', '1', 'acc', '0'],
     cwd='C:\myprogramfolder\run')

Christian




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