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    copied!<p>I have a Window .bat file with DOS commands that involve REM, MKDIR, ECHO, run some programs, and especially combining all the output into a log file with time stamps. I want to translate this into Python. </p> <p>I tried os.system but this will not work - it will run the programs I need to run, but there is no way to connect all the statements, making sure all the logs are outputted to the right file. As I understand, each time the command line is called separately using os.system. </p> <p>An excerpt example:</p> <pre><code>SET LOG=test.log DEL /F /Q ..\output\ REM THE LOG STARTS HERE ECHO test.bat started &gt;%LOG% ECHO %DATE% &gt;&gt;%LOG% ECHO %TIME% &gt;&gt;%LOG% stata/e statascript.do matlab -r matlabscript -logfile matlabscript.log -nosplash -minimize -wait lyx -e pdf2 document &gt;&gt;%LOG% 2&gt;&amp;1 COPY %LOG%+statascript.log+matlabscript.log %LOG% ECHO test.bat completed &gt;&gt;%LOG% ECHO %DATE% &gt;&gt;%LOG% ECHO %TIME% &gt;&gt;%LOG% PAUSE </code></pre> <hr> <p>My sample code:</p> <pre><code>import subprocess, time, sys, os log = open('test.log', 'w') p = subprocess.call(r'DEL /F /Q ..\output\\', shell = True) log.write('test.py started\n') log.write(time.asctime()) log.write('\n\n\n') log.flush() p = subprocess.call(r'%STATAEXE% /e do statacode.do', shell = True, stdout = log) log.write(open('statacode.log').read()) p = subprocess.Popen('DEL statacode.log', shell = True, stdout = log) log.write('\n\ntest.py completed\n') log.write(time.asctime()) log.write('\n') log.flush() log.close() raw_input("Press &lt;Enter&gt; to exit.") </code></pre> <p>The only issue I have left is: when I run this in Windows by double clicking on test.py the way I would do it with test.bat, I get this error warning message even though all the steps are completed in the end:</p> <p>"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"</p> <p>Any idea?</p>
 

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