>> What do you mean "it's not closed"? > well the command prompt (if it is called that way in Linus) is not > returned. > > When I run file_support, the command window looks like this > >>>python file_support.py > ..... all kinds of output > >>> > > When I run test.py (which calls fie_support) , I get this > >>>python test.py > .... all kinds of output (the same as before) > > Now I've to explicitly press an enter to get the command prompt back. > This might not sound important, > but the problem is somewhat more complex, > all these scripts are ran from another program, > and although everything works fine under windows, > the program hangs on Ubuntu. > So I guess that this is the (first) problem to solve.
This looks odd. I've never seen a *shell* display ">>>" as prompt. So it looks as if you mix stuff between the shell (bash, tcsh, whatever) and python in the above. Are you *inside* the python interpreter already when typing "python test.py"? And if *not*, does typing e.g. "ls <return>" work for you, right after the test.py is run? Then there is no "getting back of the prompt", it's just that a last newline is .. well, not even missing, just not printed. Consider this (I use $ for the shellpromt): $ python -c "import sys;sys.stdout.write('hello')" hello$ Additonally, you might want to check out the Popen-object-reference for the wait-call, but actually that shouldn't change anything with regards to pressing enter or not. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list