[Tutor] example of spawn

[Jason Coggins]

In the example listed below, reproduced from the web page you recommended, 
what does `cp`, `cp` and `/dev/null` do?  I am assuming `index.html` is the 
name of the program that will be launched.

example:----------------------------------------------
os.spawnlp(os.P_WAIT, 'cp', 'cp', 'index.html', '/dev/null')
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Jason

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
To: <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] example of spawn


> "Jason Coggins" <jason at asahnekec.com> wrote
>
>> Would someone please provide me a short, simple
>> example of the spawn statement.
>> I am having trouble figuring the syntax out.
>
> There are two examples in the os module documentation.
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html
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>
> What part do you not understand?
>
>
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> Alan Gauld
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