Question

I am calling an exe (which is dependent on other batch files) , Python is giving error.
I am able to call exe (which is independent)

what I am doing is..

import os
os.system("notepad.exe")    # is working

but

os.system("c:/ank.exe")     # this is giving error as ank.exe is dependent on other batch     files

Answer 1

you have to first change the current directory so that the executable you want to run can find its dependencies:

target = "c:/ank.exe"
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(target))
os.system(target)

otherwise, os.system() executes in the directory of the running script.