Start and control an extern program

[Peter Hansen]

Axel Koehler wrote:

> Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> writes:
>>threading.Timer
>>http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/timer-objects.html
> 
> Thank you for the hint, 
> 
> but this needs threads, is this really portabel in all versions  of 
> python under linux?

It wouldn't be portable to versions of Python that don't have threads, 
one would suppose.

Have you encountered such?  Frequently?

-Peter