Question: How to execute an EXE with Python?
Jirka 'Eagle' Novak
eagle at unicode.cz
Tue Aug 27 04:45:29 EDT 2002
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for the tip, but it did not work. Sorry. :-(
>
> I am trying to run an executable whose source code was
> written in C. All it does is to open a file, write integers
> from 0 to 100 into this output file, close it and exit. A very
> simple and prosaic test.
>
> Nonetheless, I get a "0" (zero) as exit status when I execute
> the command you suggested. That means, as fas as I know,
> that the execution had been well-succeeded. But I cannot find
> the output file anywhere on the hard disk, however. What the
> problem might be?
>
> Thanks once again for your help.
I suggest to change the C code so that its output goes to stdout. Then
use os.popen in python to read the output.
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