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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:18:28 +0100, Laurent Claessens
<moky.math@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Ok, I'll try that Popen. Indeed I think that my threads are stuck 
>waiting os.system to complete.
>
	Since the return value of os.system() is the /completion status/ of
the spawned command, that would seem to be a given.
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