Program chaining on Windows

[Rob Cliffe]

On 24/08/2020 19:54, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/23/2020 3:31 AM, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
>> On WIndows 10, running Python programs in a DOS box,
>
> Please don't use 'DOS box' for Windows Command Prompt or other Windows 
> consoles for running Windows programs from a command line.  DOSBox is 
> program for running (old) DOS programs written for the IBM PC.  One 
> use is running old games, such as some distributed by GOG.  Note that 
> interactive command line interpreters existed long before MS/PC DOS.
Sorry, I was unintentionally using misleading terminology.  I was 
running programs in a cmd.exe window.
>
>> I would like one Python program to chain to another.  I.e. the first 
>> program to be replaced by the second (*not* waiting for the second to 
>> finish, as with e.g. os.system).
>
> For reasons explained especially well by Eryk Sun, you should probably 
> use one python program as a master program to run others in succession.
Yes, thats's what I'm doing now.
Thanks
Rob Cliffe