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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
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Subject: Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:08:45 +0200
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* Tim Golden (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:31:26 +0100)
> 
> Certain commands, including "dir" and "copy" are not executables
> in their own right, but merely subcommands of cmd.exe.

Right, "internal commands".

> You've got two options in Python:
> 
>    os.system (r"cmd /c dir c:\windows")

os.system automatically runs a shell (cmd) - see the documentation.
 
Thorsten