I have a Python script that needs to execute an external program, but for some reason fails. If I have the following script: import os; os.system("C:\\Temp\\a b c\\Notepad.exe"); raw_input(); Then it fails with the following error: 'C:\Temp\a' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Jan 28, 2018 · Well I searched a lot and found different ways to open program in python, For example:- import os os.startfile(path) # I have to give a whole path that is not possible to give a full path for every program/software in my case. The second one that I'm currently using . import os os.system(fileName+'.exe') In second example problem is:-

May 30, 2012 · If you need to get output from the command, feed it input, or have it run while your program continues (i.e. in parallel), use Popen. – Mike DeSimone Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 12:32

So, will not stop then after this the main part comes here first we will take input from the user whether they want to continue the program or not then we will say that if user says yes i want to continue then the continue keyword will bring the loop to the top again and will run the program again too and if the user says something else or you ...

May 15, 2016 · Note that using os.system or subprocess.call will stop the current application until the program that is started finishes. So you might want to use subprocess.Popen instead. That will launch the external program and then continue the script. subprocess.Popen(['C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe', '-new-tab'])

Oct 13, 2009 · I want to time the whole program. $ python -mtimeit -n1 -r1 -t -s "from your_module import main" "main()" It runs your_module.main() function one time and print the elapsed time using time.time() function as a timer. To emulate /usr/bin/time in Python see Python subprocess with /usr/bin/time: how to capture timing info but ignore all other output?.

How to make program go back to the top of the code instead of closing [duplicate] (7 answers) Closed 10 years ago . I've written a BMI calculator in python 3.4 and at the end I'd like to ask whether the user would like to use the calculator again and if …

Dec 14, 2010 · @frakman1 the empty quotes after the start are there since the first parameter of the command "start" is the window's title - in this case there will be no title owing to the fact that the quotes are empty. Hence, if you remove the quotes the result will be start file_path. which will result in a cmd window with the title of file_path –

Nov 28, 2009 · I just started working on Python and have been trying to run an outside executable from Python. I have an executable for a program written in Fortran. Let’s say the name for the executable is flow.exe, and my executable is located in C:\Documents and Settings\flow_model. I tried both os.system and popen commands, but so far, I couldn't make ...

The python cProfile and pstats modules offer great support for measuring time elapsed in certain functions without having to add any code around the existing functions. For example if you have a python script timeFunctions.py: import time def hello(): print "Hello :)" time.sleep(0.1) def thankyou(): print "Thank you!"