How can I launch an instance of an application using Python?

Question

I am creating a Python script where it does a bunch of tasks and one of those tasks is to launch and open an instance of Excel. What is the ideal way of accomplishing that i

Answer 1

The subprocess module intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, such as:

• os.system
• os.spawn*
• os.popen*
• popen2.*
• commands.*

.

import subprocess

process_one = subprocess.Popen(['gqview', '/home/toto/my_images'])

print process_one.pid