how to run a DOS program without getting a box?

[Richard Chamberlain]

There is a file called pythonw.exe which is python without the command box.

Richard

Richard Dobson <rwd at cableinet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3A64E195.ECA51312 at cableinet.co.uk...
> Hi all,
>
> I have tried both os.system() and the exec~ calls, and they all cause
> the Windows console to display when running a command-line program (in
> my case, to play a soundfile I don't need to see the screen messages).
> Is there a way to suppress this? Other languages, such as tcl/tk and GNU
> Octave manage this fine. I'm using Python 2.0 under Windows2000 (sp1),
> with IDLE.
>
>
> Richard Dobson
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