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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:18:28 +0100
From: Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com>
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Le 31/01/2012 17:04, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :

> 	Of course, if that thread is stuck waiting for a call to os.system()
> to complete, then it can not do anything...
>
> 	os.system()	is a rather limited, restrictive, call -- best used for
> quick one-of operations. If running Python 2.6+, I'd recommend
> converting from os.system() to subprocess.Popen(). .Popen() objects now
> have .terminate() and .kill() methods.

Ok, I'll try that Popen. Indeed I think that my threads are stuck 
waiting os.system to complete.

Thanks
Laurent