Calling .exe's from module

[mike milliger]

thanks for the tips. it works now.
--mike

mike milliger wrote:

> Shouldn't the following module call test.exe? Could someone point me to
> the section in the programming python book which covers this
> functionality?   No objects persist from my executable, so I don't have
> to worry about ref counts and obj's returning to my module. i'm
> basically going to pkzip a list of filenames passed to my module as
> argv's.
>
> #start
> import string,sys,os
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> # run test
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>
>     os.system ("D:\Archiver\test.exe")