Python launch exe file

I tried subprocess. I thought that I can use stdin but didnt really work out. I would really appreciate if you can give me a sample with subprocess. The "ask for the name of the input file" part is the troublesome one. Not knowing anything about how that exe is coded, as I already mentioned, wexpect is the likeliest solution, as it lets you simulate exactly what that exe file would see when invoked at a cmd window. The simplest way is: import os os. Someone Someone 4 4 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges.

Doesn't work: module 'os' has no attribute 'startfile'. Using python3. Apparently doesn't work on anything Windows related, contrary to impression that the documentation gives. For example: os. Jon Mills Jon Mills 1, 3 3 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. The main issue here are the spaces inside, your suggestion is fine but not addressing the main issue — Frediano Ziglio.

So you might try: import sys, string, os, arcgisscripting os. Adrien Plisson Adrien Plisson Works perfectly, how would one store the results directly to a dataframe? Robert 9, 14 14 gold badges 61 61 silver badges bronze badges. Frodo Baggins Frodo Baggins 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

You mean it starts the. Celeo 5, 8 8 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Try import subprocess subprocess. I tried the executable separately and it works fine.

Didnt make a difference.?? PIPE if process. John John 21 1 1 bronze badge. Please add an explanation of why your code solves this question.

Your working example will look like this: import os os. Bomba Ps Bomba Ps 89 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. The make it possible to pass anything to and from a child process, so even pickled data. Pipes are in many ways comparable to network connections between a client and a server. There are windows specific extensions available:. Two processes could communicate via pipes, via a network connection or even via a file,.

However, If I can squirt data into Ghost windows fast enough and smoothly enough to supply UI navigation, then …well, Damn! It worked out ok, but the doctor more or less has forbidden me to sit behind a desk for a while. Anyway: I am not versed well enough in c to say anything about Pinvoke I think is a way to do procedure calls in other processes so more like RPC remote procedure calls but without the remote, but I can give some short definitions for some of the strange python terms some are not specific to python btw.

Making a persistent copy of some data structure. So pickling marshalls data, and does someting with it typically dumping it to a file for later reuse. What does the a parameter do? Thank you. Just a heads up! The best way is to copy the file in another folder. In mac, os. I don't know about Mac OS, but if Windows Operating System is the case and provided the Microsoft Windows is properly installed, then consider using : import os os.

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Use os. SyntaxVoid It worked for me. Moshe, very strange. That is not how it acts on my machine, even if I run python as admin os. This happens regardless of me being in an interactive python shell, or running a. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You would have to use os. Popen os. Can you see if this works import os change the current directory to specified directory os. ArunJose ArunJose 2, 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges.

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