"Adrian Greyling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
that creates my "problem"... What I'd like to do, is create a plain
text
file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using
os.startfile)
and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file
and then
of course, has the current focus, I'd like to delete the text file
Thats potentially going to cause the associated program to crash
but assuming you know what you are doing there...
What happens with the code snippet below, is that it doesn't start
the second program until the function is finished.
Correct, that's what you asked it to do :-)
time.sleep() in between the os.startfile() and os.remove(), but it
just
delays opening 'mytextfile.xyz' and actually deletes the file before
my
second program can open it up.
Really? That shouldn't happen!
path = "c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz"
You probably want to either use forward slashes or put
an r in front of the quotes, otherwise Python will treat
the \ as an escape character...
#bunch of stuff here to create 'mytextfile.xyz"
os.startfile(path)
os.remove(path)
If you want the remove to run in parallel with the startfile
you probably need to use threads to start the application
in one thread and then pause and then delete the file in
the other thread.
Alan
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