How to schedule system calls with Python

[Jeremy]

On Oct 15, 6:47 pm, Ishwor Gurung <ishwor.gur... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy,
> Hi
>
> > I need to write a Python script that will call some command line
> > programs (using os.system).  I will have many such calls, but I want
> > to control when the calls are made.  I won't know in advance how long
> > each program will run and I don't want to have 10 programs running
> > when I only have one or two processors.  I want to run one at a time
> > (or two if I have two processors), wait until it's finished, and then
> > call the next one.
>
> Right.
>
> > How can I use Python to schedule these commands?
>
> If I were as lucky as you, I would have used multiprocessing module[1]
> (my platform does not have sem_open() syscall). Others suggestions are
> as good as it can be but yeah you could get a lot of work done using
> multiprocessing module(all the relevant bits are explained in the
> module doc).
>
> [1]http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
> --
> Regards,
> Ishwor Gurung

Again another great suggestion.  I was not aware of the
multiprocessing module, and I'm not (yet) sure if I understand why I
should use instead of multithreading as explained by a previous post.

Jeremy