[Pythonmac-SIG] Automating running a sequence of programs

[Chris Barker]

Hi all,


I need to have a way to automate a sequence of programs running,
something along the idea of:

create config file
run program A
run Program B (using a file created by program A)
repeat as needed

I've tried using findertools.launch, and it mostly works, but I get some
long pauses, and I got an appleevent timeout errot (or something like
that) on one test run. I think the trick here is that I need the
programs to finish running before I run the next one. That does not
appear to be happening. I think the programs I'm running lock up the
system enough that it sort of works but isn't reliable.

So I think my question is:

How can a launch antoher program and then wait for it to finish before I
do something else?


or:

How else can I do this?

-Thanks,
-Chris


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