alexLIGO wrote: > 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!
Try to break this down to a minimal testcase and then post that. Also, I usually use the subprocess module instead of os.system these days. > How can I check the memory usage in my python > script? Can I force python to execute the program on the bash? If bash is your shell, then os.system will call the program through a bash subshell. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
