Re: a subprocess qns

2006-04-21 Thread Ben C
On 2006-04-21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i wanted to start execute a command and put it in the background. i am > using Unix. If you use subprocess, or even os.spawn, it should be portable and work on all systems (although the docs list some restrictions). > Usually i st

Re: a subprocess qns

2006-04-21 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i wanted to start execute a command and put it in the background. i am >using Unix. >Usually i start this command using something like this : >"/path/somecmd &" with the "&" to put it to background. Even if it's in the background with "&

a subprocess qns

2006-04-20 Thread micklee74
hi i wanted to start execute a command and put it in the background. i am using Unix. Usually i start this command using something like this : "/path/somecmd &" with the "&" to put it to background. i looked at the subprocess module docs and came across this statement Replacing os.spawn* -