You should give a go to os.popen( <system command here> ). Article 6.1.2 and 6.1.3 in the Python Library doc.
I recently wrote a program that would create a pipe using the popen() method, and would enter a while loop. At each iteration, it would read one line of the pipe output, and the loop would break when it gets an empty line (indicating the running application is not running in this case). Example: import os oPipe = os.popen( "run C:/program files/my app/executable.exe" ) while 1: sLine = oPipe.read() print sLine if sLine == '': print 'No more line from pipe, exit.' break Cheers Bernard On 2/8/06, calmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > unfotunately, 'commands.getstatusoutput(command)' does not work under > windows. > > Would there be any alternative? > > os.system also just provides the exit number I think. > > thanks a lot, > and cheers > marco > > > -- > calmar > > (o_ It rocks: LINUX + Command-Line-Interface > //\ > V_/_ http://www.calmar.ws > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list