Radovan Garabik garabik at melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk.spam
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Matthew Miller <matthewm at es.co.nz> wrote:
 : Hi Everyone,

 : Problem#1) I've tried and tried but I cannot get
 : os.popen('command','w').write('data') under Win98 to accept data from
 : the pipe - it justs ignores it. HELP!

 : Problem#2) Likewise, I cannot get spawnv() to work under Win98. Could
 : someone give me a simple example.

I was biten by this some time ago.
The answer is to use the full path:
exefile=r"f:\python\pythonw.exe"
os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, exefile, (exefile, r"j:\programs\program.pyw", frm, to, message))

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