On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:32:12 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote:
> I believe you need to /eventually/ call .wait() as shown to avoid the
> child becoming a zombie process.
Alternatively, you can call .poll() periodically. This is similar to
.wait() insofar as it will "reap" the process if it has terminate
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:33 AM, loial wrote:
> I have a requirement to kick off a shell script from a python script
> without waiting for it to complete. I am not bothered about any return
> code from the script.
>
> What is the easiest way to do this. I have looked at popen but cannot
> see how
