Kill an OS process from script (perhaps unix specific)

2008-04-19 Thread chengiz
Hi, I'm trying to run a process from a python script. I need the exit status of that process but do not care about its output, so until now was using os.system(). But it turned out that the process often went into an infinite loop, so I wrote a SIGALRM handler. Unfortunately the code I came up

Pygtk but no gtk?

2006-10-20 Thread chengiz
I am trying to build an app that requires pygtk so I installed the latter. The app does the following: import pygtk ... import gtk This crashes with ImportError: No module named gtk. I dont know where to get this gtk module from. I assumed pygtk would be it coz the app doesnt mention any

Re: Pygtk but no gtk?

2006-10-20 Thread chengiz
my pygtk provides /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py, which contains the gtk module. You should ensure that you have that file, and if not, find out where to get it. I had the files stored in my local space and my PYTHONPATH was wrong. It seems PYTHONPATH should contain