On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 08:22:14AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: [snip]
> > Run a shell (cmd.exe, I think) using subprocess and send it the > commands you want to run using the communicate() method. > Actually, I ended up using stdin.write('...\n'), and it works as expected: # # Set WindRiver environment for VxWorks 6.4 # wrenv_path = "C:\WindRiver\wrenv.EXE" args = [wrenv_path, '-p', 'vxworks-6.4'] proc = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE ) proc.stdin.write(str.encode('wrws_update -data %s -l %s -b clean\n' % (workspace, self.target))) output, error = proc.communicate() print(output) print(error) You can keep using stdin.write until you call communicate() this allows you to write certain commands to the stdin for the process you launched. Note: wrenv.exe is actually a shell like cmd.exe. The above code is written for Python 3.1. Thanks for the help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list