Python calling external applications

[Harry George]

stevesusenet at yahoo.com (Steve) writes:

> Is it possible for pyton to
> - send a command to the os, as in starting a non-python program, app, script
> - be tell if that non-pyton script ran to completeion
> 
> Thanks in advance

Yes.  See

commands.getoutput(...)
os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT...)

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