Re: starting programs from python script on windows

2008-01-30 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BV) wrote: BV Hi, BV i want to automate starting programs on my windows machine and i want BV to do it with windows. BV This is a sample script: BV from subprocess import Popen, PIPE BV import time BV print Starting app 1 BV time.sleep(1) BV try: BV p1

starting programs from python script on windows

2008-01-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i want to automate starting programs on my windows machine and i want to do it with windows. This is a sample script: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import time print Starting app 1 time.sleep(1) try: p1 = Popen([C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE],

Re: starting programs from python script on windows

2008-01-28 Thread Tim Golden
Benedict Verheyen wrote: i want to automate starting programs on my windows machine and i want to do it with windows. This is a sample script: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import time print Starting app 1 time.sleep(1) try: p1 = Popen([C:\Program Files\Microsoft

Re: starting programs from python script on windows

2008-01-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Tim Golden schreef: snip OK. You've got a few misunderstandings in there. Nothing too major, but it's worth sorting them out. 1) If you just want to kick off a program and that's it, say as part of some kind of startup process, then you can just use the subprocess.call convenience