I'll take a peek at the subprocess docs Steve, and see if I can learn
something there... Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm using WinXP as well Wayne.. Not too sure why yours works, and mine
doesn't.. I'll revisit what I'm doing and also check into Steve's
suggestion.
Adrian
On Mon, Oct 6, 200
What OS are you using, Adrian? On WinXP, this worked fine:
import os
def files():
os.startfile('myfile.txt')
os.remove('myfile.txt')
-Wayne
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:15:06PM -0400, Adrian Greyling wrote:
> As a newbie, Alan, I was kinda scared you'd say that "threads" were the
> answer here! (It sounds like someone is going to get sucked into a worm
> hole or something...) Looks like the next class in my Python education is
> going
Thanks for the input folks. Sadly, Tim's suggestion yields the same results
as I was getting previously. My second program very graciously tells me
that the file I'm trying to open doesn't exist. Like the code snippet I
posted, the timer.sleep(x) line just waits the 'x' seconds until opening
'myt
"Adrian Greyling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
that creates my "problem"... What I'd like to do, is create a plain
text
file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using
os.startfile)
and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file
and then
of course, has the c
Adrian Greyling wrote:
path = "c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz"
BTW, I hope you're using raw strings in your
real code, or else you're going to come a
cropper one day when a filename begins with "t".
TJG
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Adrian Greyling wrote:
Not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway. Below is a code snippet
that creates my "problem"... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text
file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile)
and after the associated program has what it ne
Greetings all,
Not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway. Below is a code snippet
that creates my "problem"... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text
file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile)
and after the associated program has what it needs to op
