In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M Abbas wrote: > This is what i am required to do. > Call an executable from my python script, and when the executable is > fininshed running, i should continue with my python script. > > I have tried "os.exec()" but it calls the executable and never returns > to the calling python script. > I tried "os.fork" it will start an independent process, > since logic of my program depends on the results of executable.
Take a look at `os.system()` or the `subprocess` module. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list