Gerhard Häring wrote: > Yves Glodt wrote: >> Hello, >> >> another question rose for me today... >> >> Is there a way to start an external process, in it's own context (not as >> the exec-() functions do), and get it's pid...? [...] > > Check out the subprocess module if you're using Python 2.4. > > Otherwise, you can always use os.spawn*, for example: > > >>> os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, "c:/windows/notepad.exe") > 1944
Thanks, in Linux it seems to work. > HTH, > > -- Gerhard > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list