calling a program without waiting for it to finish

[Steve Holden]

"mnietz" <okumee at compuserve.de> wrote ...
> Hey Guys,
>
> I looking for a way to execute a command-line programm from Pyhton
> without having to wait for it to finish.
> AFAIK i can't use os.popen() or os.system() because these methods wait
> for a return-value. Or can I use the unix command exec in way like
> start in windows os.system("start ping -t www.google.com")?
> That does exactly what i need.
>

You need to look at os.fork and os.spawn* and choose the method that suits
you best.

regards
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