[Tutor] Executing dos .bat file with Python script (original) (raw)

Bernard Lebel python at bernardlebel.com
Sat Jul 24 22:54:38 CEST 2004

(sorry Alan if you have received this privately, I'm not used to the need to use reply-all to send back to the list)

Thanks Alan.

However.... it doesn't seem to work as expected? My bat file starts a dos command prompt within the Softimage|XSI environment. But when executing the command, well, a command prompt pops but closes immediately!

Python code: oFile = file( 'C:\Python23\Lib\experimentation\xsi.bat', 'r' ) os.system( str( oFile.read() ) )

Bat file (xsi.bat) code (this code is the actual code used to launch the XSI command prompt): @echo off title "SI Command Prompt" cmd /K call C:\Softimage\XSI_3.5.1\Application\bin\setenv.bat echo on

I suspect that the problem is with the fact that my bat file is calling another bat file, but usually if I double-click on a bat file containing that code it works....

Thanks Bernard

----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at blueyonder.co.uk> To: "Bernard Lebel" <python at bernardlebel.com>; <tutor at python.org> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Executing dos .bat file with Python script

> Let say I have a python script that write a .bat file, with the commands and > arguments. Now how can I use that same python script to actually execute the > .bat file in the Windows environment? Any direction would be appreciated.

Use os.system() or os.popen() if you want to read the output... Alan G.

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