Spawn new process -> get pid

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:59:16 -0200, breal <hacker.stevenson at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> I have a soap server written in Python that acts as an intermediary
> between a web service and an InDesign server.  The indesign server is
> non-threaded, so when all instances are used up I want to create a new
> instance, get the pid, use the process, then kill it.
>
> What is the best way to do this?  I don't want to replace the current
> process with the new one which is looks like os.exec* does.

Use the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

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Gabriel Genellina