Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2005, 13:25 -0600 schrieb nephish: > thanks gents, > i am using linux. and i have been trying to get the spawn command to > work. > in the docs, i dont understand what is ment by args, i dont really have > any args to pass.
Most programs expect their own full path as the first argument (arg 0). > i tried like this > os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, '/path/to/program.py') os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, '/path/to/program.py', '/path/to/program.py') Note that in order to be able to run python programs like that, they have to: - be executable (have executable flag) - contain a shebang in the first line (#!/usr/bin env python) > and it doesnt act like anything is actually happening. > > the program does not really exit. i just close its window. > should i change that? > i dont know where to put the sys.exit. What do you mean ? Put it where you want to quit. > thanks for your help guys. > > i have thought about running it as a thread, but the thread needs to die > after i close the window. umm. What are you trying to do ? > > thanks again, > shawn cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/