Hello all, What I want to do: launch seperate python programs from one main program (multi-threading will not achieve this because the mechanize library uses one shared global opener object which will not suit my needs) I want the scripts launched to be in seperate windows that i can see the output of on screen, seperate processes. I can accomplish this in win32 by:
import subprocess; args = ["cmd", "/c", "START", "python", "myScript.py"]; process1 = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False); however, doing will open a new window, but will lose the process id: e.g. process1.poll() will always return 0 no matter if the process is open or not, meaning that python always thinks its closed. It should return None if the process is still running. I can do it without using cmd /c start, but then the newly launched python script is trapped in my original cmd terminal where i launched the script from in the first place. I can keep track of the process now, but the one cmd window open is insufficient to keep track of the output that a multitude of programs running will produce. Doing it without the /c argument will still keep the new script in the same console. Yes, I have read I can do this in linux with Konsole or whatever like: child = subprocess.Popen("konsole -e python foo.py", shell=True) however, I need this to run in windows. Any help or solution is appreciated, -- Zak Kinion zkin...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list