spawning pyhon apps...

[Jason Scheirer]

On Jan 9, 2:47 pm, "bruce" <bedoug... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> hi...
>
> toying with an idea.. trying to figure out a good/best way to spawn multiple
> python scripts from a parent python app. i'm trying to figure out how to
> determine when all child apps have completed, or to possibly determine if
> any of the child processes have died/halted..
>
> parent app
>  spawn child1
>  spawn child2
>  spawn child3
>  .
>  .
>  .
>  spawn childn
>
> do i iterate through a os.waitpid(pid) for each pid of the child processes i
> create?
>
> is there another approach? code samples/tutorial...??
>
> i've seen various approaches via google, but not just what i'm looking for..
>
> thanks

Investigate the subprocess module, you probably want Popen objects.
You can do a poll loop like

my_popenobjects = [subprocess.Popen("foo.py", "--filename=file
%i.txt"%x) for x in xrange(10)]

while any(popenobject.statuscode is None for popenobject in
my_popenobjects):
  time.sleep(0.25)

If your tasks are more like function calls and less like shell
scripts, then investigate writing your python as an importable module
and use the multiprocessing module, which will do threading/
subprocessing for you.