Problem with tkinter & spawning processes

[Fredrik Lundh]

nathan <nnever50 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've programmed a GUI with Tkinter and I've started  it with the
> mainloop() as usual.  Now, I want to start a new process from
> the GUI, by pressing a button.
>
> I've tried with:
> os.system('"C:\Program Files\Python\Python.exe" -i test.py')
>
> The new process starts fine (standard output on the DOS cmmand
> prompt) nd I cannot do anything more.
>
> It seems that the new started process blocks the mainloop() thread

the os.system call doesn't return until the new process
has terminated.

> How can avoid this?

this might work:

    os.system('start "C:\Program Files\Python\Python.exe" -i test.py')

or you could use os.spawn(os.P_NOWAIT, ...).  see
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589728736

(tweaking that script to support a wait/nowait flag is
left as an exercise for the reader)

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