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?

Answer 1

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.