[Tutor] running process in parallel

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 27 21:35:55 EST 2003


> I want to run some script files in different
> directory all at a time that is 
> running process in parallel .Is it possible?
> 
> * kamariah lamim [2003-10-27
> 12:31]:
> >Hi ;
> >   i want to call and execute  other programs
> parallely from python.is that 
> >possible.?what tools do i need?
> 
> What type of programs and what do you mean by
> "Parallely"? You can use
> os.fork or many of its variants to start child
> processes. What else are
> you looking for?
> 
> --
> David Rock
> david @ graniteweb.com

Funny, the version of Python I'm using (2.3.2-1)
doesn't have os.fork. Here's the input and output in
case I interpreted something incorrectly:

>>> import os
>>> os.fork
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'fork'

Daniel Ehrenberg

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