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Calling Exe from Python

Hello Folks,

This is what i am required to do.
Call an executable from my python script, and when the executable is
fininshed running, i should continue with my python script.

I have tried "os.exec()" but it calls the executable and never returns
to the calling python script.
I tried "os.fork" it will start an independent process,
since logic of my program depends on the results of executable.

I am unable to figure, how to do it.
Hope you folks would help me.

~JinBaba

May 2 '07 #1
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In <11**********************@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups .com>, M Abbas wrote:
This is what i am required to do.
Call an executable from my python script, and when the executable is
fininshed running, i should continue with my python script.

I have tried "os.exec()" but it calls the executable and never returns
to the calling python script.
I tried "os.fork" it will start an independent process,
since logic of my program depends on the results of executable.
Take a look at `os.system()` or the `subprocess` module.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
May 2 '07 #2
I've been using subprocess.call(['name','arg1','arg2']) Works fine.

On 2 May 2007 03:48:19 -0700, M Abbas <ab*****@gmail.comwrote:
Hello Folks,

This is what i am required to do.
Call an executable from my python script, and when the executable is
fininshed running, i should continue with my python script.

I have tried "os.exec()" but it calls the executable and never returns
to the calling python script.
I tried "os.fork" it will start an independent process,
since logic of my program depends on the results of executable.

I am unable to figure, how to do it.
Hope you folks would help me.

~JinBaba

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