system command

Lee Harr missive at frontiernet.net
Sat May 8 14:39:50 EDT 2004


On 2004-05-07, Jack B. <barfsky at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to execute a system command within my python/Tkinter
> program, but I do not want to wait for it to exit.  It will  launch a
> different Tkinter program to be run at the same time.  This seems like
> it should be simple, but I cannot find a way to do it.  Help please,
> thanks!
>
> In Perl, this would be very simple.  But perhaps it is simple in
> Python and I just have not found it yet.
>


How about using ...

import os
os.system('differentprogram &')

?




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