AndyL wrote: > Edward Elliott wrote: >> And if the script runs somewhere that stderr is likely to disappear: >> >> prog1 = subprocess.Popen(['prog1'], stdout=file1, >> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > > Forgot to mention before that the main motivation is to have the same > code on bot Linux and M$ platforms. > > Does subprocess work well on both?
yes > Also how to find out that the 'prog1' e.g. has exited and it is done? prog1.wait() or prog1.poll(). look at the subprocess docs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list