[python-win32] w32process documentation
Andrey Ivanov
ai2009 at yandex.ru
Tue Dec 21 19:45:27 CET 2004
Hello Stefan,
Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 6:58:49 PM, you wrote:
SS> Hello,
SS> I'm looking for documentation for the win32process module. The online docs
SS> don't seem to contain anything about it. Specifically, I'm looking for
SS> information concerning the 'CreateProcess' call.
SS> I'm debugging an application where a call to 'CreateProcess' generates
SS> an error about the file not being found. As the path is set in the
SS> system-wide
SS> environment, I'm wondering whether that environment is actually used during
SS> the call
SS> (I'm passing 'None' to the environment argument to CreateProcess()).
SS> Thanks for your help,
SS> Stefan
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And how do you pass an executable name? CreateProcess() has two
executable name related parameters (appName, commandLine) and Windows
uses different search strategy for each one of them. If you want
Windows to search for your executable using PATH you should use None
instead of appName and pass the name of executable in commandLine
parameter.
As to environment parameter, you should always set it to None, unless
you want to completely redefine the environment.
By the way, you shouldn't count on pywin32 help. They don't aim to
reproduce MSDN. So when in doubt use Microsoft's help. It is clear and
well written.
--
Andrey
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