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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:47:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: subprocess.Popen and thread module
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Danny Wong (dannwong)
<dannwong@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> =C2=A0 I'm trying to execute some external commands from multiple databas=
e.
> I'm using threads and subprocess.Popen ( from docs, all the popen*
> functions are deprecated and I was told to use subprocess.Popen) to
> execute the external commands in parallel, but the commands seems to
> hang.

What's your Popen() call look like?

Cheers,
Chris