On Apr 5, 3:25 pm, "Henrik Lied" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'd still love to get a working example of my problem using the > > > Subprocess module. :-) > > > The same thing: > > p = subprocess.Popen(["mencoder", "/users/...", "-ofps", ...]) > > That example looked great at first, but on a closer look it didn't > quite end up to be what I wanted. In a real environment the user still > had to wait for the command to finish. Then you are not using it correctly. subprocess.Popen() returns immediately. Notice the order of events here: In [2]: subprocess.Popen('sleep 2; echo foo', shell=True); print 'bar' bar foo -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list