Thanks walter. Ill have a go and report back.
Thanks Dave On Feb 5, 2012 4:35 PM, "Walter Prins" <wpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Dave, > > On 5 February 2012 15:26, Dave Hanson <d...@hansonforensics.co.uk> wrote: > > I can force a dos window to open by using a bat or python program. > > OK, so the command prompt issue is really a red herring then from what > I can tell. Work around the standard limitations of your desktop in > whatever way suits you (providing you're not going to get yourself > into trouble by doing so etc). As long as you can get to a command > prompt you can then set up the program to work the same way as on > Unix, with a bit of jiggery pokery. > > > What I'm > > trying to get around is not being able to interact with the program using > > [options] like -l for list for example. > > OK, so your real issue involved command line arguments it seems. What > I'd do is write a wrapper batch file for your Python program named > "t.bat", and place it in a location that's on your search path, or add > it to the search path if you like (perhaps put it alongside t.py and > then put that location on the system PATH.) > > t.bat should contain something like this (adjust paths as required > obviously): > > c:\Python27\python.exe c:\src\t\t.py %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > > This command line will obviously pass the first 9 command line > argument strings given to the batch file on to the Python program. > > What this does is to allow you to run the command like you do on Unix, e.g: > > t -f 5 > > ... which in turn should will find and run t.bat with the command line > arguments "-5 5" which then pass them on to the Python program etc. > > HTH, > > Walter > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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