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python shutdown

Jan 26th, 2009

does anyone know how to shutdown a computer on windows XP (using python of course

given the IP address and the computer name (probably don't need it, though)? I don't want to use os commands like os.system("shutdown -i"). Thanks in advanced!

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Re: python shutdown

Jan 27th, 2009

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Originally Posted by besktrap

does anyone know how to shutdown a computer on windows XP (using python of course given the IP address and the computer name (probably don't need it, though)? I don't want to use os commands like os.system("shutdown -i"). Thanks in advanced!

use os.system

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import os
#run os based command like opening notepad
os.system("notepad")
import os
#run os based command like opening notepad
os.system("notepad")

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