Re: newbie - returned values from cscript.exe

2007-01-26 Thread ina
I did the same thing back before I knew about python and com. I hope this example gets you on the right track. It is just a simple script that does a dir and returns prints it out. import os, sys dCall = dir resultFromCall = os.popen(dCall) #get data back from the system call mv =

newbie - returned values from cscript.exe

2007-01-24 Thread Rich
I am writing my first python script and I'm guessing this is something obvious but I can't find any examples of doing something like this. I have a python script that is running a vbscript through cscript.exe. The vbscript looks up a server name, username, password etc and returns these values in

Re: newbie - returned values from cscript.exe

2007-01-24 Thread Jerry
I would probably start with a look at popen. With it you can make your call to cscript and capture the output. Then, you don't need to set any environment variables. On Jan 24, 1:26 pm, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing my first python script and I'm guessing this is something