Hi,
i want to automate starting programs on my windows machine and i want to do it with windows. This is a sample script: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import time print " Starting app 1" time.sleep(1) try: p1 = Popen(["C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE"], stdout=PIPE) except Exception, e: print "Error on startup app 1 %s " % str(e) print " Starting app 2" time.sleep(1) try: p2 = Popen(["C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe"], stdout=PIPE) except Exception, e: print "Error on startup app 2 %s " % str(e) It start it from a batch file: SET PYTHONPATH=C:\Python25 rem - path to script to execute %PYTHONPATH%\python.exe C:\login.py This is the result: C:\>C:\Python25\python.exe C:\login.py Starting app 1 Starting app 2 Het proces heeft geprobeerd naar een niet-bestaande sluis te schrijven. Het proces heeft geprobeerd naar een niet-bestaande sluis te schrijven. Het proces heeft geprobeerd naar een niet-bestaande sluis te schrijven. 1. I get an error message saying the process has tried to write to a non existing pipe. 2. Order of execution isn't respected: it prints the 2 messages and then it tries to start the programs. Outlook is started but the command prompt not. Anyway, if it works, i would like to start using python to drive the startup scripts of the users on the system. How can i use python to start several programs as i would otherwise do manually and keep the order i want? Thanks, Benedict -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list