Tkinter gui for the winnt subst command

[Jeffrey Drake]

os.popen("subst z: c:\python22")

that works very quickly, i don't know what your problem might be. 

On 30 Dec 2001 08:00:54 -0800, yuvale at radware.com (yuval) wrote:

>I need to map and remap (cmd.exe subst ...) certain 
>directories on my computer very often. Therefore I wrote a 
>Tkinter gui which upon button press performs essentially
>cmd.exe /c subst ... with various arguments.
>I tried several approaches (os.popen, os.system,spawnv) for 
>running the command. Unfortunately with all these approaches 
>it takes the command a very, very long time (~30 seconds) to complete.
>I am running Python 2.1. Does anybody know where the 
>problem lies and how to solve it?