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Crontab question: can not invoke Python script

Hi experts,

I have two Python scripts "A" and "B". In "A" I use "os.system(...)" to invoke script "B". If I manually run "A", then "B" can be invoked successfully. However, when I use crontab to execute "A", "B" does not run in this case.

Anybody knows how to fix this?

Thanks so much.
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hi cxr,

thanks for your reply. I used

command = ("python %s") % (B.py)
os.system(command)

Following your suggestion I have added full path to the python executabe. so let's wait and see how it works.

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It does not work.

I just combined the two scripts into one script. This solved the problem.

Thanks cxr for your reply. Appreciated.