On Thu, 2010-01-07, Rajat wrote: > I want to run a python script( aka script2) from another python script > (aka script1). While script1 executes script2 it waits for script2 to > complete and in doing so it also does some other useful work.(does not > do a busy wait). > > My intention is to update a third party through script1 that script2 > is going to take longer.
I do not understand that sentence. What are you trying to do, more exactly? The best solution can be threads, os.popen, os.system or something different -- depending on the details of what you want to do. > Please suggest how should I go about implementing it. > > I'm currently executing it as: > > import main from script2 > ret_code = main() > return ret_code > > which surely is not going to achieve me what I intend. > > > Thanks, > Rajat. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list