On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 08:01 AM, Dylan Evans wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alain Ketterlin < >> al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr >> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that >>>> script to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish? >>>> If not then how do I make it wait? >>>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> process = subprocess.Popen(command, >>>> >>> stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=**subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, >>> close_fds=True, shell=True) >>> >>> process.wait() >>> >>> >> Or use subprocess.call instead which does what you want. >> >> Actually after having a look through the manual i like check_output for this since it simplifies the code, but some extra exception handling would be required if the output is still required when the script exits with a non zero value, so it's a bit of a trade off. > -- Alain. >>> -- >>> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> >>> >>> >> > http://docs.python.org/2/**library/subprocess.html#popen-**objects<http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#popen-objects> > > or use communicate(), which is what the OP had in the first place. > > > -- > DaveA > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> > -- "The UNIX system has a command, nice ... in order to be nice to the other users. Nobody ever uses it." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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