Re: How to stop a linux process

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Williams
You may check out the  http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ module.  This gives you pretty good control over running processes.  It even allows you to "interact" with them.Regards,MichaelOn Nov 28, 2005, at 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 28, 2005 2:10:05 P

Re: How to stop a linux process

2005-11-28 Thread Glen
Simon Brunning wrote: > The subprocess module might be worth a look. That looks about right for what I need (once I understand it!). Thanks very much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to stop a linux process

2005-11-28 Thread Simon Brunning
On 11/28/05, Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I used the following line to play a midi file in linux, > > return_value = os.system('timidity test.mid') > > I have encountered two problems. > 1. The python script halts until timidity has finished. > 2. If I had control of the script, I can't t