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

David Rock david at graniteweb.com
Sun Jul 25 04:17:55 CEST 2004

Bernard Lebel <python at bernardlebel.com> [2004-07-24 21:54]:

(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() ) )

your python code should be: os.system( 'C:\Python23\Lib\experimentation\xsi.bat' ) That spawns a shell and runs the given command within it.

Also, look at the commands module if you need to get status or output, too. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-commands.html

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