problem solved (i think)

[hejduk]

In article <20020716.171155.619290071.333 at beer.com>, "hejduk"
<claxtonr at beer.com> wrote:

> I obtain the path and then send it to the following function:
> 
> def progStart(file):
>       import thread
>       from os import system
> 
>       def progStart(file):
>           system(file)
> 
>       thread.start_new_thread(progStart, (file,))


the following is what i was looking for:

def progStart(file):
	import os
	pid = os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, file, ("",))
	os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)

i had tried using spawnv sometime ago but with the P_DETACH flag, which
for some reason is not available to me.