import ctypes

from ctypes.wintypes import HANDLE, DWORD, LPVOID, BOOL, LPSTR, LPBYTE, WORD

k_handle = ctypes.WinDLL("kernel32.dll")

# PROCESS_INFORMATION structure

class PROCESS_INFORMATION(ctypes.Structure):

_field_ = [

("hProcess", HANDLE),

("hThread", HANDLE),

("dwProcessId", DWORD),

("dwThreadId", DWORD)

]

# STARTUPINFOA structure

class STARTUPINFOA(ctypes.Structure):

_field_ = [

("cb", DWORD),

("lpReserved", LPSTR),

("lpDesktop", LPSTR),

("lpTitle", LPSTR),

("dwX", DWORD),

("dwY", DWORD),

("dwXSize", DWORD),

("dwYSize", DWORD),

("dwXCountChars", DWORD),

("dwYCountChars", DWORD),

("dwFillAtribute", DWORD),

("dwFlags", DWORD),

("wShowWindow", WORD),

("cbReserved2", WORD),

("lpReserved2", LPBYTE),

("hStdInput", HANDLE),

("hStdOutput", HANDLE),

("hStdError", HANDLE)

]

'''

BOOL CreateProcessW(

LPCWSTR lpApplicationName,

LPWSTR lpCommandLine,

LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes,

LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,

BOOL bInheritHandles,

DWORD dwCreationFlags,

LPVOID lpEnvironment,

LPCWSTR lpCurrentDirectory,

LPSTARTUPINFOW lpStartupInfo,

LPPROCESS_INFORMATION lpProcessInformation

);

'''

lpApplicationName = "c:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe" # path to application

lpCommandLine = None

lpProcessAttributes = None

lpThreadAttributes = None

bInheritHandles = False

dwCreationFlags = 0x0010 # CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE

lpEnvironment = None

lpCurrentDirectory = None

lpStartupInfo = ctypes.byref(STARTUPINFOA())

lpProcessInformation = ctypes.byref(PROCESS_INFORMATION())

response = k_handle.CreateProcessW(

lpApplicationName,

lpCommandLine,

lpProcessAttributes,

lpThreadAttributes,

bInheritHandles,

dwCreationFlags,

lpEnvironment,

lpCurrentDirectory,

lpStartupInfo,

lpProcessInformation)

if response != 0:

print("Process is running!!")

else:

print("Create process failed. Error code {}".format(k_handle.GetLastError()))