python call external program
Ben Thomas
bthomas at trey-industries.com
Tue Sep 14 11:20:05 EDT 1999
OK, I can use: "os.system('dir c:\*.* >myfile.txt')"
But how can I call 'mybatch.BAT' from python? A DOS batch file that is.
closer... ever closer...
Ben
Ben Thomas wrote:
> very simple question:
>
> What would I do to have Python execute something from the DOS command
> line. I am very new to python but I bet it is in a moudule but don't
> know the command or the modules to look in. I want to
>
> dir >%myvar.txt
>
> #this code would run dir from the command line and pass the var "myvar"
> , dir would dump a listing of the files into a text file called xxxx.txt
>
> pointers?
>
> Ben
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