Launch another application
Larry Bates
larry.bates at websafe.com
Mon Apr 23 16:19:46 EDT 2007
KDawg44 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to launch another application and pass some arguments to
> it from python. WHen the user clicks on the button, i want it to
> execute:
>
> binaryApplication fileName
>
> Is there a way to do this as if I was doing it from a shell in
> python? Would it be using something like popen? this app does not
> need to return anything to the python app i am writing and the python
> app does not need to wait for it (to close or do anyting else).
>
> Thanks.
>
Take a look at the subprocess module it is newer and is intended to
replace popen (which still works if you prefer to use it).
-Larry
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