Keep open a cmd window

Question

I have a python code in a program that opens a cmd window and runs there another program. The code looks like:

os.chdir('C:/Abaqus_JOBS' + JobDir)
os.system('abaqus job=' + JobName + '-3_run_rel2 user=FalseworkNmm41s interactive')

Now everything works but I get an error in the cmd window and next it closes very quickly not letting me see what was the error. How can I prevent this cmd window to close?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Add + " & timeout 15" or + " & pause" to the string you pass to os.system:

os.chdir('C:/Abaqus_JOBS' + JobDir)
os.system('abaqus job=' + JobName + '-3_run_rel2 user=FalseworkNmm41s interactive' + " & timeout 15")

consider using popen (Difference between subprocess.Popen and os.system) instead.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered May 15 '13 at 18:02

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '13 at 18:04

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just use the commande "pause" it will ask you to press a key to continue.

answered May 15 '13 at 18:04

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '13 at 18:04

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os.chdir('C:/Abaqus_JOBS' + JobDir)
os.system('abaqus job=' + JobName + '-3_run_rel2 user=FalseworkNmm41s interactive')
raw_input("Press Enter...")

answered May 15 '13 at 18:04

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '13 at 18:08

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All of these work. I prefer the input("press enter"), but at fist I imported time, and added time.sleep(500), which would give me 500 secs to see what's going on. You can put in even more seconds.

answered May 15 '13 at 18:08

Jacob Kudria

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Keep open a cmd window

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