simple question...

[chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom]

Sounds promising... I'll give it a shot.

Thanks.


On 23 Jun 2000 22:18:00 -0400, David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote:

>chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom writes:
>
>> At the end of a script A, I would like to initiate script B.  I don't
>> want to run script B as a function in A; rather, I want to quit A, and
>> start script B.  Is this possible?
>
>Try the os.exec* functions in the os module.  It sounds pretty much
>like what you want to do.  The exec* functions replace the current
>running executable with another executable - only one process slot is
>involved, and the original executing code does not exist following the
>exec call.
>
>Note however that since you'll be replacing your current process, you
>actually need to exec python giving it the new script as an argument,
>rather than just directly-exec()ing the script.
>
>You can use sys.executable to determine the python that is executing
>the current script and just exec() that with an argument of the new
>script.
>
>You don't note your platform, but I believe this is documented for
>both Windows and Unix.
>
>--
>-- David
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