managing multiple subprocesses

[Fredrik Lundh]

Oren Tirosh wrote:

>> os.systems / commands etc etc. I realise the subprocess module may have
>> what I need but I can't get python 2.4 on the Mac so I need a 2.3 based
>> solution. Any help is much appreciated. Cheers.
>
> The Python 2.4 subprocess module by Peter Astrand is pure python for
> posix systems (a small C extension module is required only for win32
> systems). You can bundle it with your code and use it with older
> Python versions. It even contains backward compatibility code to
> replace True and False if not found so it can run on Python 2.2.

footnote: a stand-alone distribution is available here:

    http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/

direct link to the latest subprocess.py source:

    http://tinyurl.com/3mmka

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