On Oct 7, 6:23 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is your shell script doing something else, apart from invoking the java > process?
Obviously, yes. The script is some 150 lines long. But the hang-up occurs because of the forked Java process, not the other lines. > If not, you could just invoke java directly from Python. Also, > you set stdin=PIPE - is your java process expecting some input? you're not > writing anything to stdin. It does not expect input from stdin. However, this does not affect any OTHER scripts or commands I run. Let's remember to look at the objective facts: for shell scripts that launch child processes of their own, Python hangs. For all other types of commands, it works 100% as expected. > Anyway, it's better to use the communicate method instead (it uses select > to read from both stdout and stderr): That doesn't help me. > See http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.commu... I have. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
