Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Palmer
On Sep 25, 8:16 am, "Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > > finished. > >

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Arnold
"Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > finished. Thanks for the ideas everyone--I now have some news tools in the toolbox. T

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-24 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 24, 9:27 pm, Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (2) Next thought was fork, but I don't know how to signal when each > child is > finished. Consider the multiprocessing module, which is available in Python 2.6, but it began its life as a third-party module that acts like threading modul

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-24 Thread Karthik Gurusamy
On Sep 24, 6:27 pm, Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > finished. > > (1) First thought was threads, until I saw that os.chdir was process- > global. > (2) Ne

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Palmer
On Sep 24, 9:27 pm, Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > finished. > > (1) First thought was threads, until I saw that os.chdir was process- > global. > (2) Ne

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Sep2008 18:27, Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working | directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are | finished. | | (1) First thought was threads, until I saw that os.chdir was process- | global. Yep. B

Re: multiple processes, private working directories

2008-09-24 Thread r0g
Tim Arnold wrote: > I have a bunch of processes to run and each one needs its own working > directory. I'd also like to know when all of the processes are > finished. > > (1) First thought was threads, until I saw that os.chdir was process- > global. > (2) Next thought was fork, but I don't know h