[BangPypers] Execute Windows "shutdown" command through python !

[Pradeep Gowda]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM, ™aßlเίlαslเ ► <abhilash.pin2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     Yes 'shutdown' command is working absolutely fine from the command line
> at Windows 64 bit,
> but I have find something interesting is that :
>
>
> import os
> os.system("cmd")
>
> After running above code at python, then from that command window, I try to
> run the 'shutdown ' command,
> and its giving the error . I tried to search the "shutdown.exe" file at
> C:\WINDOWS\system32 from the same
> command window, and it can't locate it, where as I can find it by windows
> command line.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Pradeep Gowda <pradeep at btbytes.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:22 AM, ™aßlเίlαslเ ► <abhilash.pin2 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > *import os
>> > os.system("shutdown /?")*
>> >
>> > *its saying "shutdown is not an internal or external command or
>> executable
>> > batch file"*
>>
>> Is shutdown a valid command in the new OS?
>> Atleast it looks like that from the error message.
>>
>> Try running `shutdown` from the command line and see whether you get
>> the same error.

try with the full path
assuming shutdown.exe is in c:\windows\system32

os.system("c:\\windows\\system32\\shutdown.exe")

might work.

Or is it c:\windows\system64 ??
I do not have a windows PC to verify this.

My hunch is that python's sys.path does not include the windows system
directories.

+PG