"Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >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.
Thanks for the ideas everyone--I now have some news tools in the toolbox. The task is to use pdflatex to compile a bunch of (>100) chapters and know when the book is complete (i.e. the book pdf is done and the separate chapter pdfs are finished. I have to wait for that before I start some postprocessing and reporting chores. My original scheme was to use a class to manage the builds with threads, calling pdflatex within each thread. Since pdflatex really does need to be in the directory with the source, I had a problem. I'm reading now about python's multiprocessing capabilty, but I think I can use Karthik's suggestion to call pdflatex in subprocess with the cwd set. That seems like the simple solution at this point, but I'm going to give Cameron's pipes suggestion a go as well. In any case, it's clear I need to rethink the problem. Thanks to everyone for helping me get past my brain-lock. --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
