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Question

The following doesn\'t work, because it doesn\'t wait until the process is finished:

import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen(\'start /WAIT /B MOZILL~1.LNK\',          


        

Answer 1

cmd.exe is terminating as soon as start launches the program. This behavior is documented (in start /? ):

If Command Extensions are enabled, external command invocation through the command line or the START command changes as follows:

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When executing an application that is a 32-bit GUI application, CMD.EXE does not wait for the application to terminate before returning to the command prompt. This new behavior does NOT occur if executing within a command script.

How this is affected by the /wait flag, I'm not sure.