replacing batch file with python script

[SeeBelow]

I have not been able to find a simple way to have a python script
execute an MS-DOS program repeatedly. execv(), for example, won't run
it more than once. I have been using many lines of a .bat file, like
so:

..
..
..
del xyz
myexec 1 2
del xyz
myexec 1 2
..
..
..

where myexec is an executable program that I want to run many times. I
would like to replace the repeated batch file lines with a python loop.
There must be an easy way to do that, no? else why is Python called a
scripting language.

Thanks

Mitchell Timin

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[Sridhar R]

Don't use exec family of functions. Use os.system.

 

[SeeBelow]

Don't use exec family of functions. Use os.system.

Thanks, that seems to do what I want.

m

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[Ivo Woltring]

Don't use exec family of functions. Use os.system.

Also consider os.popen