Create new processes over telnet in XP

[Godzilla]

Hello,

How do you create/spawn new processes in XP over telnet using python?
I.e. I would like to create a new process and have it running in the
background... when I terminate the telnet connection, I would what the
spawned processes to keep running until I shut it off...

I got the os.popen method to spawn a new process running in the
backgroun, but not over telnet... tried os.popen[2, 3, 4] and also
subprocesses.popen without any luck...

Any help will be appreciated... thankyou.