[Tutor] Start multiple threads from Python

[Ryan Waples]

Thanks, that may be just what I'm looking for.

-ryan


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Chris Down <chris at chrisdown.name> wrote:

> On 2013-08-05 12:17, Ryan Waples wrote:
> > Currently I am calling each analysis program one at a time with
> > subprocess.call(). This is working without a hitch, but as each analysis
> > can take a while to run, I want to try to speed things up.  I realize I
> can
> > start three different python sessions to do this, but that just begs the
> > question how to do that from python?
>
> subprocess.Popen does not block unless you explicitly tell it to (by using
> communicate()). Perhaps that's what you want.
>
>     >>> import subprocess
>     >>> x = subprocess.Popen([ "sleep", "60" ])
>     >>> y = subprocess.Popen([ "sleep", "60" ])
>     >>> x.pid
>     3035
>     >>> y.pid
>     3036
>
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