On Oct 16, 5:26 pm, TerryP <bigboss1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Thanks, TerryP..I briefly played around with subprocess.Popen, but so far no luck (certainly not to say I haven't missed something). You could be right that the Win API is needed.. I try to avoid whenever possible though. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
