[Tutor] Broken os.system() in Windoze

[Kirby Urner]

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>Or maybe I'm just dreamin'.
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>Any help/pointers welcome.
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>Kirby

Note:  If I go to a DOS box and boot the Python
shell in DOS vs. in GUI IDLE (blech), then I'm
able to import os, os.system("notepad") just fine.

Somehow +already+ being in DOS solves the problem,
but trying to run os.system("notepad") from within
the Windows shell results in an error message and
an exit code of 65413

Kirby

PS:  it's not really notepad I'm interested in --
just using this as an example.