sir_alex wrote: > If i have to execute an external program (for example, in the frontend > that i created for convert, from ImageMagick) i have 2 possibilities: i > can call one function between the exec* family, or i can call the > system function: so, which in your opinion is the best? The only > difference that i know (but i may be in error) between these 2 > functions is that the former doesn't return (so you have to create a > child process), but the latter returns. Is this the only difference?
Those are options. So is the newer subprocess module, which I believe is considered to be a reason to deprecate almost all other ways of doing the same thing (os.system, possibly excluded, because of it's sheer simplicity). -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
