On 12/18/2012 05:27 AM, Hans Mulder wrote: > On 18/12/12 06:10:43, photonym...@gmail.com wrote: >> I hope I understand the question... but shouldn't you wait for the process >> to complete before exiting? >> >> Something like: >> >> pid = subprocess.Popen(...) >> pid.wait() >> >> Otherwise, it'll exit before the background process is done. > Why would that be a problem? >
Because you don't want to bog the system down with a zombie task. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
