In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As described in the docs I pointed to before: >subprocess.call("foo.sh",shell=True) >Is the way to do it without args. I think it is simplest to learn the >subprocess module because (quoting from the docs) this module intends >to replace several other, older modules and functions, such as: >os.system >os.spawn* >os.popen* >popen2.* >commands.* >This way you only need to learn one thing. Actually I would like to >see some of these older functions deprecated. . . . A point worth repeating, and I salute your courtesy in doing so. I had realized neither the deprecation of these interfaces, nor the documentation to that effect, so I thank you for pointing them out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list