On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:45 -0700, alexLIGO wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run a python script that executes several other programs > on the bash (under linux) and reads some of the output of those > programs. This works fine for a couple of os.system() calls, but then > it does not work anymore. os.system() returns always -1, but when > executing exactly the same program directly on the linux-bash it works! > > Could this be a memory problem? It happens when there is much data > stored in a python list. How can I check the memory usage in my python > script? Can I force python to execute the program on the bash? What can > I do?
Are you trying to read the output (stdout) of the program? If so you should be using os.popen() not os.system(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
