Program chaining on Windows
Rob Cliffe
rob.cliffe at btinternet.com
Mon Aug 24 17:11:23 EDT 2020
On 24/08/2020 19:54, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/23/2020 3:31 AM, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
>> On WIndows 10, running Python programs in a DOS box,
>
> Please don't use 'DOS box' for Windows Command Prompt or other Windows
> consoles for running Windows programs from a command line. DOSBox is
> program for running (old) DOS programs written for the IBM PC. One
> use is running old games, such as some distributed by GOG. Note that
> interactive command line interpreters existed long before MS/PC DOS.
Sorry, I was unintentionally using misleading terminology. I was
running programs in a cmd.exe window.
>
>> I would like one Python program to chain to another. I.e. the first
>> program to be replaced by the second (*not* waiting for the second to
>> finish, as with e.g. os.system).
>
> For reasons explained especially well by Eryk Sun, you should probably
> use one python program as a master program to run others in succession.
Yes, thats's what I'm doing now.
Thanks
Rob Cliffe
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