You might want to try python expect which gives you a very simple and scriptable interface to a process.
http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ I've been using it on windows to automate a few things. Cheers, Paul jas wrote: >Kent, > Yes, your example does work. So did os.popen...however, the problem >is specific to "cmd.exe". > Have you tried that yet? > >Thanks! > >Kent Johnson wrote: > > >>jas wrote: >> >> >>>Ok, I tried this... >>> >>>C:\>python >>>Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] >>>on win32 >>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> >>> >>>>>>import subprocess as sp >>>>>>p = sp.Popen("cmd", stdout=sp.PIPE) >>>>>> >>>>>>result = p.communicate("ipconfig") >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>'result' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>>operable program or batch file. >>> >>> >>> >>>basically I was opening to send the "ipconfig" command to cmd.exe and >>>store the result in the "result" variable. But you can see there was >>>an error with result. >>> >>> >>This works for me: >>import subprocess as sp >>p = sp.Popen("ipconfig", stdout=sp.PIPE) >>result = p.communicate()[0] >>print result >> >>Kent >> >> > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list