Yves Glodt wrote: > Hello, > > another question rose for me today... > > Is there a way to start an external process, in it's own context (not as > the exec-() functions do), and get it's pid...? [...]
Check out the subprocess module if you're using Python 2.4. Otherwise, you can always use os.spawn*, for example: >>> os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "c:/windows/notepad.exe") 1944 HTH, -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
