[google-appengine] Forking new process from within app engine?

2009-12-29 Thread AL
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

Re: [google-appengine] Forking new process from within app engine?

2009-12-29 Thread Ikai L (Google)
From here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Sandbox http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Sandbox An App Engine application cannot: - write to the filesystem. Applications must use the App Engine