[Tutor] Opening a dos exe

[Alan Gauld]

"Ray Parrish" <crp at cmc.net> wrote 

>>> but I cannot find a way of getting this information to the dos program
>>> from python. Any ideas?
> You could use os.system("startprogram.bat"), and 
> create startprogram.bat
> to run the dos program, and feed it the files, 
> either all at once, or one at a time via the command line if it accepts 
> command line input.

I don't think you can do the second option with a bat file. There is no 
way to interactively respond to the program once it starts. Thats why 
WSH is better for that kind of interactive input.

Or just use subprocess.Popen...

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