Use os.system and if you wanna get rid of console window use subprocess as gary said, you could have better options like killing proc if it hang/stuck using win32api (if you are using windows) else process timeout.
ret = os.system('sample.exe') # ret will have return code and os.system execute sample.exe #using subprocess import subprocess process = subprocess.Popen('sample.exe', stdout=subprocess.PIPE) #you can print error/output using stderr/stdout pipe Both are easy to implement! Thanks!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list