Brendan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For instance on unix systems, Popen will work for files flagged with > the executable bit, whereas on windows Popen will work on files > ending the in .exe extension (and I don't think anything else). Is > there a portable way
Actually, if you pass the use_shell = 1 argument to Popen, it will launch the process using a shell - that is, what you expect to work in a shell (and consequently os.system()) will work. > to check what Popen will work on without actually execute it? Do I > have to write a bunch of platform specific code here? Unfortunately, you'll probably need to write platform specific kludges for this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
