[Tutor] using python to execute from Dir A in Dir B
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Thu Oct 4 21:57:03 CEST 2007
Andre Walker-Loud wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> lets say I am in Dir A (out of my control because I have submitted a
> job to a queuing system)
>
> and I have a python script which is running in this directory - the
> one I submitted to the queue
>
> what I need to do is have my python script run another executable,
> but it must do it from a directory different from the one I am in, it
> needs to run in the /scratch/ directory (again not my choice)
>
> Is this possible, and is it easy?
Use subprocess.Popen() with the cwd argument.
Kent
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