[Tutor] Replacing cmd.exe with custom .py application

[Ezra Taylor]

Is there something similar to /dev/null on Windows?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ezra Taylor <ezra.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph:
>             Check out subprocess.  The subprocess module is on python
> 2.4.  Also, use subprocess.call("your command",shell=True)
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> On Linux/Unix, the process is below
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> import subprocess
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> ret = subprocess.call("dir",shell=True,stdout=open('/dev/null','w'),stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
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> print ret
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> You should get a return value of 0.  Which means that it was
> successful.  I'm still learning this myself, so some of these other
> guys might have more input.
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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32 AM, A. Joseph <joefazee at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Instead of going to the command line all the time, I want to create a small
>> customized cmd.exe of my own, how can I get the return value from
>> os.system() because I was thinking I can do soothing with os.system(), In
>> case my question is not clear,  just like an IDE that plugged in another
>> .exe application.
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>> Sorry for any mistake in my question. Just help me if you can
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> Ezra Taylor
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