I tried the below approach to open a command prompt and run a sample command. But it immediately closes: import os # as of now i am just passing cd /../, later will be changing to a different command os.system("start /wait cmd /c {cd /../}") I also tried this way, but this opens two command shells:

Mar 30, 2011 · import os os.system('"some cmd command here"') for example to open my web browser I can use this: os.system(r'"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"') (Edit) for an easier way to open your browser I can use this: import webbrowser webbrowser.open('website or leave it alone if you only want to open the browser')

Jul 23, 2012 · os.system("start cmd /c {command here}") # Launches in new command prompt, closes when done However, os system won't let me wait until the command finishes (since start is the actual command, the second it opens the new command prompt it's "done") Similarly if I try:

Jun 16, 2009 · Run the program from an already-open terminal. Open a command prompt and type: python myscript.py For that to work you need the python executable in your path. Just check on how to edit environment variables on Windows, and add C:\PYTHON26 (or whatever directory you installed python to).

From the DOS command line, the "start" command does what I'd like. I can either: start perf_test.py 2 or. start cmd /c perf_test.py 3 or. start cmd /c python perf_test.py 4 (These will work for you if you have your "file associations" setup correctly for *.py files. There are other threads on that, if you need help.

Aug 27, 2023 · We're using .popen() to open a new command prompt window and run a Python command inside it. The /C option is used to close the command prompt window after the command is run. The python command uses the -c option to specify a Python command to run. After that, we import the hello method that you created.

Oct 11, 2015 · open up a cmd shell and somehow get a hold of the instance of the opened shell and issue commands to it. the subprocess module doesn't seem to open a cmd shell im not trying to view the contents of the shell via the interpreter but actually but that's what subprocess does? so how can we open up a cmd shell and pass commands to that opened shell?

Jan 14, 2021 · But to run the python file in the command prompt, you need to compile it into an exe, use the pyinstaller module for that. pip install pyinstaller Now navigate to the folder with the python file. pyinstaller --onefile your-file.py If you want to run any command of your own, add the line. os.system('your-command-here) The command inside the ...

Oct 1, 2021 · The results of any script are saved back into the program. When the script executes, it does not show a command prompt window. Is there an easy way to open a command prompt window from inside the script and pass over information for display, such as a dataframe header, a string or a list of values? I have found from earlier SO posts that I can use:

Nov 5, 2013 · Which python do you have installed? You don't want to save files in c:\program files under windows. That isn't a good practice. Setting up a dev directory like you did or under your user directory is a much better option. Have you added python to the path setting? If you start a command prompt (cmd.exe, not IDLE and type python, what do