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Re: subprocess question re waiting

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On 04/08/2013 08:01 AM, Dylan Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
>> wrote:
>
>> loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that
>>> script to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish?
>>> If not then how do I make it wait?
>> [...]
>>> process = subprocess.Popen(command,
>> stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
>> close_fds=True, shell=True)
>>
>> process.wait()
>>
>
> Or use subprocess.call instead which does what you want.
>
>
>> -- Alain.
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>

http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#popen-objects

or use communicate(), which is what the OP had in the first place.


-- 
DaveA

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subprocess question re waiting loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 04:00 -0700
  Re: subprocess question re waiting Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2013-04-08 13:48 +0200
    Re: subprocess question re waiting Dylan Evans <dylan@dje.me> - 2013-04-08 22:01 +1000
    Re: subprocess question re waiting Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-08 08:22 -0400
    Re: subprocess question re waiting Dylan Evans <dylan@dje.me> - 2013-04-08 22:58 +1000
  Re: subprocess question re waiting Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-08 08:25 -0400

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