"wormwood_3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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