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Sunny88
Sunny88

Reputation: 2940

Executing a program from python so that it opens in separate cmd.exe window

How can I execute a program from within python program so that it opens in a separate cmd.exe window with the output of the executed program? I tried using subprocess.popen but it doesn't display the cmd.exe window while the program is running.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8753

Answers (1)

mpaf
mpaf

Reputation: 6797

In Windows, you need to declare optional variable shell=True and use start:

subprocess.Popen('start executable.exe', shell=True)

or if you want to kill the shell after running the executable:

subprocess.Popen('start cmd /C executable.exe', shell=True)

For example:

subprocess.Popen('start dir', shell=True)

subprocess.Popen('start cmd /C dir', shell=True)

Upvotes: 7

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