On Oct 16, 8:15 pm, D <dmcclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to be able to spawn a new CMD window (specifing size, > color and placement of the window), and write to it separately. > Specifically, I have a backup program that displays each file backed > up in the main window, and I would like to spawn and continually > update a second CMD window that will display the current status (i.e. > number of files backed up, amount of data backed up). Also, I only > want to display the update messages, don't want to display any command > prompts. I'm thinking I should be able to do this using subprocess, > but I haven't been able to find out how. Any help would be greatly > appreciated!
you'll likely want to fiddle with subprocess.Popen with the arguments set to suitable values to invoke a cmd window and establish pipes for communication; see the documentation. If that doesn't work, it would probably be time to muck with the Windows API. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
