What are you trying to do exactly? If you provide more explanations, we
may
provide a better help than the simplistic one above.
Dear All,
Thanks for the suggestions.
Basically, I have the situation where a user (via the web) requests data from a database that has to be written to file. However, this takes a couple of minutes. So the way I thought of doing this is: 1. create an empty file. 2a. tell the user where to look for the file. 2b. spawn a process to insert data into the file.
This way the user can see the data as its being written.
You may want to use threads for this instead of processes. See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html
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