how to start a new thread from a GUI

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Wen Jiang <wj691781 at bcm.tmc.edu>:
| I have a GUI to submit a background job and want the GUI to exit after
| the job is submitted to leave the actually big job run for a few days to
| compleletion. Could anyone give me a hint how to do this? right now the
| GUI stays but blocked by the background job.
| Thanks.

os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, cmd, argv) might work for you.

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