Caleb Hattingh wrote: > Hi Eric > > Check that ".py" and ".pyw" are in your PATHEXT environment variable > (are you using Windows?). Then, if the folder that cabel is in is in > your PATH environment variable, and the correct association for .py > files is set up (i.e. they get run by python.exe), > > either > os.system('cabel') > or > os.system('cabel.py') > > should work. > > Alternatively, you could not do any of those things, and run > > os.system('python cabel.py') > > with 'cabel.py' in the same folder as the parent script, and that > should work too, assuming that the path to your python executable is on > the PATH environment variable. > > If you run other commands from python quite frequently, it is probably > a good idea to look into the "os.popen" set of commands, for more > flexibilty. > > Caleb
import cabel and reload(cabel) seem to work fine. I am not sure why I am having trouble with os.system . Tells me it isn't a command. thanks for the help, I will look into os.popen to see what it does. would there be ay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list