[Tutor] Spawning terminals from Python - A failed question
wormwood_3
wormwood_3 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 25 02:52:12 CEST 2007
>>Umm, so just put the ampersand at the end of the command string and
>>call os.system()
Not sure what the point of this variation would be if os is being deprecated along with commands...
>>However both os.system and the commands module are deprecated in
>>favour
>>of the new(ish) subprocess module where the equivalent incantation
>>would be:
>>p = subprocess.Popen("gnome-terminal", shell=True)HTH,-- Alan
Good to know! I will start using this instead.
-Sam
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