Hello! How to write portable (win32, unix) script that launches another program and continues its execution?
I've looked at spawn*() but it doesn't look in PATH dirs on windows so it's totally unusable when you don't know where exactly program is. I've looked at fork() way but there's no fork for windows. My current solution is thread.start_new(os.system, (<here's program to launch>,)) It's ugly and there's one big unpleasant pecularity: in case there were any os.chdir()-s between beginning of script execution and that thread.start_new() then new thread starts in original directory. Not in current directory at moment of thread.start_new() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
