spawn.py 文件源码

def spawn(cmd, search_path=1, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
    """Run another program, specified as a command list 'cmd', in a new process.

    'cmd' is just the argument list for the new process, ie.
    cmd[0] is the program to run and cmd[1:] are the rest of its arguments.
    There is no way to run a program with a name different from that of its
    executable.

    If 'search_path' is true (the default), the system's executable
    search path will be used to find the program; otherwise, cmd[0]
    must be the exact path to the executable.  If 'dry_run' is true,
    the command will not actually be run.

    Raise DistutilsExecError if running the program fails in any way; just
    return on success.
    """
    if os.name == 'posix':
        _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
    elif os.name == 'nt':
        _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
    elif os.name == 'os2':
        _spawn_os2(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
    else:
        raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
              "don't know how to spawn programs on platform '%s'" % os.name