Subject: Re: problem with opening a new python program in a new window (and keeping track of the process)

[Zak Kinion]

>> What I want to do:  launch seperate python programs from one main
>> program (multi-threading will not achieve this because the mechanize
>> library uses one shared global opener object which will not suit my
>> needs)  I want the scripts launched to be in seperate windows that i
>> can see the output of on screen, seperate processes.  I can accomplish
>> this in win32 by:
>>
>> import subprocess;
>> args = ["cmd", "/c", "START", "python", "myScript.py"];
>> process1 = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False);
>
> Pass CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE as one of the creationflags:
>
> <code>
> import os, sys


Yep, that definitely works. :)


> import subprocess
>
> processes = []
> cmd = [sys.executable, "-c", "import os; print os.getpid (); raw_input ()"]
> for i in range (3):
>  processes.append (subprocess.Popen (cmd, creationflags=subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE))
>
> #
> # Keep looping round to see the current status
> #
> while True:
>  for p in processes:
>    print p.poll ()
>
>  raw_input ()
>
> </code>
>
> TJG
>
>
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