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Op 03-07-13 05:47, Victor Hooi schreef: > Hi, > > I have a Python script where I want to run fork and run an external command (or set of commands). > > For example, after doing <xyz>, I then want to run ssh to a host, handover control back to the user, and have my script terminate. > > Or I might want to run ssh to a host, less a certain textfile, then exit. > > What's the idiomatic way of doing this within Python? Is it possible to do with Subprocess? > If I understand correctly that you want something done in python and then wish to finish python and give control to an other program. I would use an external script that would first launch the python program and then the other program. If for some reason this is a less attractive option, you can use the os.exec family. That terminates the python program will starting up an other program. -- Antoon Pardon
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Python - forking an external process? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 20:47 -0700
Re: Python - forking an external process? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 20:59 -0700
Re: Python - forking an external process? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 21:11 -0700
Re: Python - forking an external process? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 21:22 -0700
Re: Python - forking an external process? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-07-03 00:17 -0400
Re: Python - forking an external process? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-07-03 12:55 +0200
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