[Tutor] Spawning terminals from Python - A failed question

[Alan Gauld]

"wormwood_3" <wormwood_3 at yahoo.com> wrote

>  want to basically spawn the process so it keeps running regardless
> of what the script does next (like running something with " &" after 
> it in linux).

Umm, so just put the ampersand at the end of the command string and
call os.system()

> All I ended up having to do was:
>>>> import commands
>>>> commands.getoutput("gnome-terminal")

However both os.system and the commands module are deprecated in 
favour
of the new(ish) subprocess module where the equivalent incantation 
would be:

p = subprocess.Popen("gnome-terminal", shell=True)HTH,-- Alan 
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