> - I am trying to call up an external program > with something like a "Shell" command - can not find a way of doing this > (in windows)
Look in the os module, there are several options depending on exactly what you need to do. The simplest option is system(). To read the output look at the various popen() and for more sophisticated options try the exec() family. If using system() on DOS you might look at the START DOS command too for the options available there. HTH, Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
