On Jan 7, 9:18 am, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > 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 .
I personally use subprocess. Once you launch via subprocess you can wait or not. p = subprocess.Popen(...) p.wait() #or not. See subprocess docs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
