How to start child cmd terminals in separate windows, from python script and execute scripts on them?

Question

I have been trying rather unsuccesfully to open several terminals (though one would be enough to start with) from say an ipython terminal that executes my main python script. I would like this main python script to open as many cmd terminals as needed and execute a specific python script on each of them. I need the terminal windows to remain open when the script finishes.

I can manage to start one terminal using the command:

import os
os.startfile('cmd')

but I don't know how to pass arguments to it, like:

/K python myscript.py 

Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done?

Cheers HH

Answer 1

Use subprocess module. Se more info at. Google>>python subprocess

Answer 2

http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html

    import subprocess
    subprocess.check_output(["python", "c:\home\user\script.py"])

or

    subprocess.call(["python", "c:\home\user\script.py"])