On Jun 21, 10:41 am, shanti bhushan <ershantibhus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I want to invoke local wen server named mogoose, and kill it after > some time by python script. > Then i want to change the argument and invoke it again. > > I am able to do this with below code. > > import subprocess > import time > > def invoke_server1(): > s1ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: > \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe >YourOutput.txt"') > print s1ret > > def invoke_server2(): > s2ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: > \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe -root D:\New1\ >YourOutput.txt"') > print s2ret > def invoke_server3(): > s3ret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "D: > \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe -root D:\New2\ >YourOutput.txt"') > print s3ret > > def kill_server(): > killret=subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c > "taskkill /F /IM mongoose-2.8.exe >YourOutput1.txt"') > print killret > > kill_server() > time.sleep(5) > invoke_server1() > time.sleep(5) > kill_server() > time.sleep(5) > invoke_server2() > time.sleep(5) > kill_server() > time.sleep(10) > invoke_server3() > time.sleep(5) > kill_server() > > This works fine in python26 ,but when i use this code in one testing > tool, server is invoked 1st time properly.but for second time it says > process already occupied cannot access the process. I am not able to > understand why subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c > "taskkill /F /IM mongoose-2.8.exe is not working second time .Please > guide me in this respect. > > Or please tell me is there any other way,to do same thing with python > script that will start and kill windows process for my requirement. > > Regards > Bhushan
i am getting following error message "process cannot acces the file because it is being used by other process" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
