Tim Golden schreef: <snip>
> OK. You've got a few misunderstandings in there. Nothing too major, > but it's worth sorting them out. > > 1) If you just want to kick off a program and that's it, say as part of > some kind of startup process, then you can just use the subprocess.call > convenience function. The business with stdout=PIPE is for communicating > with (usually console-based) programs which read and write to the > console. > > 2) The optional PYTHONPATH env var is used *internally* to Python as > one way of determining the path to search for Python modules *after > you've got Python running*. To run Python itself, you either need > to ensure the python.exe is already in the standard PATH env var, > or look for it in its conventional place: c:\python25\python.exe. > (Or make some other arrangement according to local convention etc.) > > There was a thread here recently about using Python as part of a > login script -- which is what I think you're doing here. I think, > because of the uncertain interaction between the Workstation in > effect when you're logging in as opposed to the Workstation which > owns the user's desktop, you might do better to have some technique > for adding to the [Startup] entry on the Start Menu if all you want > to do is to start programs. > > All that said, here's some sample code which just kicks off a > batch of programs. Note that I'm use os.startfile because that > will use ShellExecute which honours app path shortcuts, making > common things like MS Office apps much easier. You could > equivalently use subprocess.call but then you either have > to hardcode application paths or use FindExectable against an > arbitrary associated doc to find the right place. > > <code - untested> > import os > > programs = [ > "outlook.exe", > "cmd.exe", > "winword.exe", > "c:/temp/helpfile.pdf" > ] > for program in programs: > os.startfile (program) > > </code> > > The last entry -- helpfile.pdf -- is to illustrate that os.startfile > can "start" documents as well as executable programs. > > TJG Tim, that seems to work ok. I will do some more testing but it looks good, Thanks! Benedict -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
