Not forking?

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

I'd like to rewrite the following Perl script in Python:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+NetCID

It seems like the following doesn't actually fork, so Asterisk is
stuck until the script ends:

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import socket,sys,time,os
  
def sendstuff(data): 
        s.sendto(data,(ipaddr,portnum)) 
        return 
  
#BAD? 
#import posix 
#posix.close(1) 
#posix.open("/dev/null", posix.O_WRONLY) 
#BAD? 

sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w') 
if os.fork(): 
    sys.exit(0) 
  
try: 
        cidnum = sys.argv[1] 
except: 
        print "Format: netcid.py cidnum cidname" 
        sys.exit(1) 
  
try: 
        cidname = sys.argv[2] 
except: 
        print "Format: netcid.py cidnum cidname" 
        sys.exit(1) 
  
now = time.localtime(time.time()) 
dateandtime = time.strftime("%d/%m/%y   %H:%M", now) 
  
myarray = [] 
myarray.append("STAT Rings: 1") 
myarray.append("RING") 
myarray.append("NAME " + cidname) 
myarray.append("TTSN Call from " + cidname) 
myarray.append("NMBR " + cidnum) 
myarray.append("TYPE K") 
  
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM) 
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET,socket.SO_BROADCAST,True) 
  
portnum = 42685 
#ipaddr = "192.168.0.255" 
ipaddr = "localhost" 
  
for i in myarray: 
    sendstuff(i) 
#Must pause, and send IDLE for dialog box to close and call to be
logged in 
time.sleep(5) 
sendstuff("IDLE " + dateandtime) 
===========

What's the correct way to handle this?

Thank you.