Thank you Jerry. That was exactly what I was looking for. The script in fact does call an external program and give it a command from a randomized list. Specifically it is a random wallpaper setter using the windows version of bsetroot. script scans a directory, creates a list of viable walls and tells bsetroot to set the wallpaper. Using popen instead of system did the trick handily. I thank you verily.
On 20 Oct 2006 14:21:59 -0700, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2:59 am, Fidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone please tell me what I need to put into a python script > > to not have a window come up however briefly? Like when I double click > > on the script, it will do it's job but won't open a command window > > then close it.. I hope that explains what I'm looking for. If I see > > the line I can figure out by syntax where it should go. I'm really > > good at learning the gist of languages by syntax. Thank you all for > > your time > > Are you running any external commands by using os.system() or > os.exec()? If you are running a program that is a console program > (i.e. copy, move, del, etc...) then it will open up a command window to > run it. If that is the case, then you can try using the os.popen() > utility instead. > > -- > Jerry > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Fidel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list