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Re: subprocess question re waiting

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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.


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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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