[Pythonmac-SIG] reposting: Q: emulating os.system() on macs?

[Giorgio Brajnik]

[this is a reposting, hoping that some Mac guru could help me]

Hi.

I'm in the process of planning to port a Python application that
is being developed on Linux to the Mac. One of the many questions I
have is how to emulate in Python/Mac something like:


def doit(infile, outfile, errfile, exefile):
    """
    execute "exefile" on "infile" and write "outfile" and "errfile"
    """
    cmd = '%s < "%s" > "%s" 2> "%s"'%(exefile, infile, outfile, errfile)
    os.system(cmd)
    return (outfile, errfile)

Any suggestion?

        Giorgio Brajnik
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