[Tutor] Opening a cmd.exe

[Alan Gauld]

"Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gmane at gmail.com> wrote

> Does this do what you want?  It creates a new cmd window titled 
> "Dir", then executes some commands.

> import os
> os.system('start cmd /c title Dir ^&^& dir ^&^& pause')

It didn't do quite what I expected, but it made me look at the
help for start, which says:

===================
Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
      [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | 
/BELOWNORMAL]
      [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]
      [parameters]

    "title"     Title to display in  window title bar.
    path        Starting directory
=====================

So it looks like simply running start and specifying a title string
before the command should do the trick:

>>> os.system('start "my window" cmd.exe')

Note the title MUST be in double quotes so the string to system must
either be rw or use single quotes.

You learn somethhing new...


-- 
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/





If you want the window to stay open after executing
> the commands, use /k instead of /c.  'cmd /?' gives other switches 
> you might want.  The escaping(^) of the ampersands(&) is required or 
> the commands will run in the current console not the new one.
>
> import os
> os.system('start cmd /c title Dir ^&^& dir ^&^& pause')
>
> -Mark
>
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