runes wrote: > Hi Jay. It seems like my requirement is a light edition of your. I like > having many console windows open, and to make it easier to switch > between them, I like to name them. Todays solution is rather tedious > > - a batch file that calls a python script that isolates the directory > name and stores it in temp file the batch file reads and use as > argument in the title command. > > It works fine, but I dislike the combination and the entire concept of > having to create a temporary file for such a small task. The "batch > language" is probably the most terrible scripting environment ever > created ;-)
As I showed in my other post you can parse program output without using a temporary file. If all you want to do is to run a script which sets the title when CMD.exe starts, that is actually quite easy: ---- c:\temp\startcmd.py ---- import os print "Python startup" os.execv('c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe', ["/D", "/C", "title", "CMD - " + os.getcwd()] ----------------------------- Then run regedit and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun edit it and insert the name of your script (in this example c:\temp\startcmd.py). Now whenever you start a new command processor the script will set the title and CMD will NOT reset it. It seems that if you set the title from a subprocess when CMD is starting it will accept your change. Warning: don't use os.system from the startcmd.py script as that would run CMD.exe without the /D flag which would run the script recursively as it starts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list