How to know that a second application has finished?

[Suchandra Thapa]

Enrique <ecastro at cicei.ulpgc.es> wrote:
>   Let me put my question again, in a different and more
>general form. I have a Python program that launches a GUI
>application in a separate window via COM. I am using Python
>2.1.1 with win32 extensions in MS-Windows (win95/98/NT)
>
>Is it possible to suspend the main Python program until the
>COM application has finished? (has been closed). 
>I want to resume from that point onwards. How the main
>program gets information of the state of other applications
>launched from it?

    I'm not sure about COM but on unix one way to do this would
be to do a os.fork(), followed by a os.wait.  On windows I believe
you could do something like os.spawnv with the P_WAIT flag.  Instead
of spawning the application directly, maybe you could spawn another 
python script that then controls the GUI app  using COM.


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