Keep a python script running after browser window closed

[sophie_newbie]

On Mar 7, 4:33 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 10:28 am, sophie_newbie <paulgeele... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a cgi script that performs a very long computation that can
> > take several hours to complete. Is there any smart way that I can keep
> > this script running until it is finished (after the user has closed
> > the browser) and email them with the results. The email bit isn't the
> > problem, I just don't know how to keep the code running in the
> > background. I'm sure there is a smart way to do this...
>
> > Thanks!
>
> You might have your cgi script use the subprocess module to open a
> second script that does the long-running process.
>
> Mike

Ya it looks like:

import subprocess

# spawn subprocess
subprocess.Popen(["python", "spawn.py"])

Should do this job, where spawn.py is the script to do the job.
Thanks.