On Mar 6, 7:20 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:00:03 -0800 (PST), DLitgo <ssj4_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > >I have a curious problem which I'm wondering if anyone here can shed > >some light on. I'm basically just following along with a guide which > >is going through some of the os module, and I'm running some examples > >in the python interpreter on mac os x (accessed through terminal/ > >bash). > > >Basically all I did was use os.fork() which caused this strange > >problem: > > >Macintosh:~ $ python > >Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 13 2009, 10:26:13) > >[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin > >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>>> import os > >>>> pid = os.fork() > > As soon as this returns, you have two CPython processes reading from stdin > and writing to stdout. They fight over your input and their output gets > interleaved in non-deterministic ways. Basically, you probably don't ever > want to do this. > > Jean-Paul
Okay cool, I guess the example wasn't meant to be run in the interpreter then :) Thanks for the reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
