popen(1-4) as a seperate process

[Astan Chee]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Astan Chee wrote:
>
>   
>> Im trying to popen (or more specifically os.popen4() ) from wxPython. 
>> I've read the documentation on popen and it says I can do a popen as a 
>> seperate process or popen not as a child process
>>     
>
> where does it say that?  afaik, the whole point of the popen API is to 
> run an external process and use pipes to communicate with it.
>
> </F>
>
>   
Yes, that is true. But everytime I run a os.popen() it executes as a 
child process of the current running one. How do I launch as a seperate 
process?
Note that I dont care about whatever happens to the seperate process 
itself.
Thanks
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