Starting application inside an application

[Chris Watson]

Horst,

> What I want to do is simply starting a second instance of my application
> (just like starting the application from the command line a second
> time). I am looking for a function like spawnv() which unfortunately
> only works for the windows platform.

	Use os.spawnv works great on FreeBSD and Python 2.0 built fresh 
from the ports tree. It isn't in 1.x but it is in 2.0. I am assuming your
using 1.x since you say it's only a windows "feature". Just upgrade to
2.0. The call works like a charm :-)

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import os
host = raw_input("Enter a hostname: ");
os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, '/usr/bin/scp', ('-v', 'x86bsd@%s:/home/x86bsd/TESTFILE' % host, '/tmp/TESTFILE'))

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