-->"Peter" == Mowry, Peter <peter.mowry@amd.com> writes: Peter> My team's application does regressions by controlling our Peter> 64-bit Windows/Linux C++ application (SimNow, Peter> www.amd.com/simnow) via stdout/stdin with ("pexpect" for unix) Peter> and (python COM objects) for Windows (b/c popen doesn't work). Peter> However, I am trying to replace this with a unified Peter> windows/linux solution. have you looked at the subprocess module, part of the standard library in Python 2.4 and later? Peter> Does extending python with Disutils sound like the simple and Peter> clean way for my goal? Is there a simple cookbook solution for Peter> my goal? i don't think distutils is what you're after. distutils is about producing installers for Python applications. d