Tim Arnold wrote: > I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > finished. > > (1) First thought was threads, until I saw that os.chdir was process- > global. > (2) Next thought was fork, but I don't know how to signal when each > child is > finished. > (3) Current thought is to break the process from a method into a > external > script; call the script in separate threads. This is the only way I > can see > to give each process a separate dir (external process fixes that), and > I can > find out when each process is finished (thread fixes that). > > Am I missing something? Is there a better way? I hate to rewrite this > method > as a script since I've got a lot of object metadata that I'll have to > regenerate with each call of the script. > > thanks for any suggestions, > --Tim Arnold
(1) + avoid os.chdir and maintain hard paths to all files/folders? or (2) + sockets? or (2) + polling your systems task list? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
