What's the easiest and cleanest way of having PyQt bring up an external application? In this case I am looking to launch Internet Explorer and bring up a specific URL. I don't care about tracking the IE process' activity and don't want PyQt to wait until the browser is closed. I tried the following code from within a PyQt app:
import os url = 'http://server.domain.com/page.html' os.system('start %s' % url) When I use this the PyQt app freezes up and only when I forcefully close it does the browser window pop up. Then I looked into QThreads and some other choices. Here's my latest attempt, using win32process: import win32process url='http://server.domain.com/page.html' cmd_line = 'start %s' % url win32process.CreateProcess(None, cmd_line, None, None, 1,win32process.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, None, None, win32process.STARTUPINFO()) When I try this I get a message stating 'The system cannot find the file specified' when the cmd_line is being interpreted. I am using Python 2.3.5 on Windows 2000 Professional, with Qt 2.3.0 and PyQt 3.13. Do I have to go to the lengths of implementing a QThread just to spawn an external program I don't care about tracking? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
