Can we execute multiple commands in the same command prompt launched by python

If you want to use the subprocess module, try something like this :

from subprocess import call
import os.path

def call_scenario(path, config_file):
    retcode = call(["path/of/exe", os.path.join(path,config_file)])
    if retcode != 0:
       print "Something bad happened : %s"%retcode 

When using subprocess.call, the shell=False parameter will avoid to launch a cmd to do something.

it can be done - here is a quick example using multiprocessing (Python 2.6 or newer )

The example bellow uses a Unix command ("ls") and unixes paths ("/usr, etc...) but just replace those with your needed commands and paths.

from multiprocessing import Process
import os

paths = ["/tmp", "/usr", "/usr/include"]


def exec_(path):
    p = Process()
    p.run = lambda: os.system("ls %s" % path)
    p.start()

for path in paths:
    exec_(path)

Another option, if you need some sophisticated control on what is running, return codes, etc... is to make use of the Fabric project - Although it is aimed at executingmultiple commands on different hosts using ssh - I think it culd be used for different paths on the same host.

URL for fabric:
http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.3.3/index.html

To run c:\path\to\exe for all config.ini from each path simultaneously and to change current directory to cwd before it is executed:

from subprocess import Popen

processes = [Popen([r"c:\path\to\exe", "config.ini"], cwd=path) for path in paths]
for p in processes: p.wait()

If you don't want to run all commands in parallel then use subprocess.call() with the same arguments as for subprocess.Popen().