running a python script in the background

[Arun]

The reason I wasn't able to run the script in the background was
because my simulator was outputting debug messages in the foreground.
The following seemed to do the trick:

script.py
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Create the config files

Loop through the list of config files:
     system("simulator configfile >> & logfile");

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>>script.py >> & logfile &


Thanks!
Aun