how to start a new process while the other ist running on

Jean Brouwers mrjean1ATcomcastDOTnet at no.spam.net
Tue Dec 21 20:30:49 EST 2004



See the os. spawn* functions.  For example

  os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, /path/to/script, args)

/Jean Brouwers



In article <cqagr2$365$1 at online.de>, Erik Geiger <Erik.geiger at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> sorry, my english ist not that got but I'll try.
> 
> I have a running python script (capisuit incoming.py). This script shall
> start a linux shell script. If I start this script like os.system(/paht/to
> shellscipt.sh) the python scipt waits for the exit of the shell script and
> then goes on with the rest of the python script.
> 
> How to start a shell script without waiting for the exit of that shell
> script? It shall start the shell script and immediately execute the next
> python command.
> 
> Thanks for any hints
> 
> Erik



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