Spawn new process -> get pid

[breal]

On Feb 4, 3:34 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:59:16 -0200, breal <hacker.steven... at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
> > I have a soap server written in Python that acts as an intermediary
> > between a web service and an InDesign server.  The indesign server is
> > non-threaded, so when all instances are used up I want to create a new
> > instance, get the pid, use the process, then kill it.
>
> > What is the best way to do this?  I don't want to replace the current
> > process with the new one which is looks like os.exec* does.
>
> Use the subprocess module:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Thanks for the reply.  Using subprocess.Popen I am able to get and
kill the process.  However, the process I am running creates another
process (an instance of InDesign Server) so when I kill the first
process it doesn't kill the second.  Is there any way to capture both
PIDs and kill them?

Thanks