Jim B. Wilson wrote: > ... My fondest wish is to play the role of the child at the > good old ">>>" prompt. ... > > Jim
Okay, I misunderstood the direction you wanted to go. I thought that you wanted to play the part of the mother, giving commands to the child and not the other way around. Assuming you're on a *nix make child.py as: import os os.system("netcat -l -p 1234 localhost") Run it though mother and on another terminal type: netcat localhost 1234 HTH, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list