On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:04:33 -0800, Victor Hooi wrote: > I have a Python script that I'd like to spawn a separate process (SSH > client, in this case), and then have the script exit whilst the process > continues to run. > > I looked at Subprocess, however, that leaves the script running, and it's > more for spawning processes and then dealing with their output. > > Somebody mentioned multiprocessing, however, I'm not sure quite sure how > that would work here. > > What's the most Pythontic way of achieving this purpose?
On Unix, the os.exec* functions might be appropriate, depending upon whether the script needs to do anything afterwards. Otherwise, use subprocess.Popen(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
