While it is not common to need to call Windows functions within Python code, you may occasionally need to do so in order to make a program work correctly. If you need to, you can run the cmd.exe ...

If you use the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the computers at your business and need to run Linux or BSD programs on them, you can use Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows computers.

I hope this is moderately difficult to do in Win2K, because I can't figure out how to do it. I want to open the Command prompt, cmd.exe, in a specific folder and run a few commands, like set path, map ...

This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...