Even though App Engine doesn't allow spawning new threads, you could
expose each subprocess on its own URI and run them asynchronously with
urlfetch:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/urlfetch/asynchronousrequests.html
On Dec 28, 9:08 pm, AL <amle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I need to invoke an external process in one of my app engine pages
> like so:
>
> import subprocess
> p = subprocess.Popen("ls -la", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
> for line in p.stdout.readlines():
> self.response.out.write(line)
> retval = p.wait()
>
> This code works fine in regular python but app engine says
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Popen'
>
> wondering if calling an external application or forking a process is
> possible. I'm doubtful because of the security implications, but im
> also a newbie at python.
>
> Thanks Y'all
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