Ben Hutchings do-not-spam-ben.hutchings at businesswebsoftware.com
Tue Mar 18 05:13:22 EST 2003

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In article <b535r7$s2f$1 at bob.news.rcn.net>, morden wrote:
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> os.execv("/usr/bin/lpr", new_arg)
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> # should I exit(os.execv("/usr/bin/lpr", new_arg)) instead?
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No.  The exec family of functions *replaces* your program with the
one you specify.  They never return successfully, and in Python,
they raise an exception when they fail.

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