Thanks a lot Alan ! both solutions work like a charm :)
On 3/5/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"learner404" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'm launching an external app through an os.system() or os.popen() > but I > don't want the resulting DOS window to hang-on there forever Try using os.spawnl() instead: >>> pid = os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT,r'C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe') >>> print pid 2834 The P_NOWAIT makes it return immediately, and no DOS box is created. Note that the spawn family of processes are deprecated and the subprocess module provides equivalent functionality. Using subprocess it looks like: >>> pid = Popen([r'C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe', ""]).pid HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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