Win32 blocking spawn

[Mark Hammond]

A little painful, but you probably need to go native:

win32process.CreateProcess starts a new program, and returns a process
handle for the new process.  To wait for completion, you can use
win32event.WaitForSingleObject()

It is a little painful - mail me for more help (or wait a few months, as
this is covered in detail in our new book :-)

[Alternatively, try experimenting with os.system("start /B cmd") etc]

Mark.

Paul Prescod wrote in message <374474E5.855E25F at prescod.net>...
>I need to run a command line app from a Windows program.
>I need the command line app to come up hidden or at least in a minimized
>window (so I don't think that I can use os.system).
>I need my program to block until it is done (so I don't think that I can
>use ShellExecute or WinExec)
>
>I've got some gross options that involve polling etc. Anybody know
>anything better? Thanks,
>--
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> http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
>
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