Python calling external applications

[Gerhard Häring]

Steve <stevesusenet at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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

Yes, both are possible.


Check out os.system for the first task, and the os.execv family of functions
for the second. If you want to read the output or feed input to the other
program you run, you can use the os.popen family of functions.
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