2008/8/21 Mathieu Prevot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/20 Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> En Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:22:16 -0300, Wojtek Walczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> escribió: >> >>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:09:11 +0200, Mathieu Prevot wrote: >>> >>>> child = Popen(cmd.split(), stderr=flog) >>>> print "Server running [PID %s]"%(child.pid) >>>> fpid.write(child.pid) >>> >>> I think that the problem here is that fpid.write() fails silently >>> (probably TypeError), because it takes string as its first argument, >>> not integer. >> >> Exactly, but it doesn't fail "silently" (that would be a bug). The exception >> is raised, but due to the finally clause ending in sys.exit(0), it has no >> chance of being handled. >> This is the original code, for reference: >> >> flog = open(logfile, 'w') >> fpid = open(pidfile, 'w') >> try: >> child = Popen(cmd.split(), stderr=flog) >> print "Server running [PID %s]"%(child.pid) >> fpid.write(child.pid) >> child.wait() >> except KeyboardInterrupt: >> print "INT sent to vnc server" >> finally: >> fpid.close() >> flog.close() >> os.remove(pidfile) >> os.remove(logfile) >> sys.exit(0) >> >> -- >> Gabriel Genellina > > > Indeed, I got TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only > character buffer, not int > and Wojtek's code works. So what is the right thing to do so my script > returns 1 or 0 depending on its state and success ?
PS: BTW how can I detach my process ie have an equivalent to `myscript.py&` from the python script ? Thanks, Mathieu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
