Python - forking an external process?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Wed Jul 3 00:17:05 EDT 2013
In article <14be21de-2ceb-464a-a638-dce0368ab9e7 at googlegroups.com>,
Victor Hooi <victorhooi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Python script where I want to run fork and run an external command
> (or set of commands).
>
> For example, after doing <xyz>, I then want to run ssh to a host, handover
> control back to the user, and have my script terminate.
>
> Or I might want to run ssh to a host, less a certain textfile, then exit.
>
> What's the idiomatic way of doing this within Python? Is it possible to do
> with Subprocess?
I suspect you are trying to reinvent fabric. It is designed to do
exactly these things (in particular, handling all the really complicated
stuff about ssh).
See http://docs.fabfile.org/
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