On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 5:45:40 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:18 AM, <j....@itu.edu> wrote: > > I have used multiprocessing before when I wrote some parallelized code. > > That program required significant communication between processes, and it's > > overkill for my purpose here. I don't need communication between the > > spawning (live data) program and the spawned program. In fact, to the > > extent that the live data program has to pay attention to anything besides > > the data stream, I think it could be bad. > > > > I have been investigating the subprocess module. I'm looking for something > > which behaves like subprocess.run("python3 my_program.py"), but which does > > not "Wait for command to complete, then return a CompletedProcess instance." > > > As far as I know, subprocess.run() will always wait for the process to > complete. But you can use the Popen constructor.
Thank you Chris, subprocess.Popen worked nicely for me. I had to set shell=True to make it work, but it did work. All parts of my program now operate independently and crash-free! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list