"Kosta" <kosta.koe...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:84d9ae10-3aee-40a8-97ac-05799da0d...@f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >I am a Python newbie, tasked with automating (researching) building > Windows drivers using the WDK build environment. I've been looking > into Python for this (instead of writing a bunch of batch files). > > What I would like to do, is to open a cmd window, and start a Python > script. This script would then (based upon input arguments), build > different flavors of the driver (fre, chk, x86, x64) and do some post > processing (create cat files, sign, etc.). > > I was hoping to take advantage as much as possible of exisiting > infrastructure from the WDK. I am able to call setenv.bat and provide > all the input parameters. One of the things setenv.bat does is change > the path environment variable. However, this is not captured by > Python. I could duplicate the functionality, but I'd rather not. Is > there a way to capture all enviroment variable changes being made by a > batch file from Python? > > Thanks!
It sounds like you know what you're doing. I just wanted to point out that you can specify environment dictionaries in the subprocess.Popen module. You can set a different dictionary for each call you make to the system. Not sure if that helps, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
