On Nov 8, 8:09 am, "Dmitry Teslenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > How to write portable (win32, unix) script that launches another > program and continues its execution? > > I've looked at spawn*() but it doesn't look in PATH dirs on windows so > it's totally unusable when you don't know where exactly program is. > > I've looked at fork() way but there's no fork for windows. > > My current solution is > thread.start_new(os.system, (<here's program to launch>,)) > > It's ugly and there's one big unpleasant pecularity: > in case there were any os.chdir()-s between beginning of script > execution and that thread.start_new() then new thread starts in > original directory. Not in current directory at moment of > thread.start_new()
Take a look at the subprocess module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
