John wrote:
> I have the exact same situation, but system doesn't seem to wait. Here
> is my pseudo code:
>
> for i in attempts: #attempts holds strings of shellscripts
> cmd="%s which runs many different shell scripts and takes about
> an hour" % (i)
> os.system(cmd)
> #debugging
> print "Finished with %s" % (i)
> raw_input("More debugging, shouldn't see this until shell
> scripts are finished!")
>
>
> But it prints the print statement and waits for raw_input instantly...
> Any thoughts?
>
Have you tried os.spawnl(...) with mode os.P_WAIT ?
>
>
> On 10/27/07, *Eric Walker* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> disregard this one. I found the answer. I was using spawn instead
> of os.system.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Eric Walker < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> To: tutor@python.org <mailto:tutor@python.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:55:05 AM
> Subject: [Tutor] system call
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to run a timing script but I need the python program to
> stop and wait for the executable to finish. Does anyone have any
> examples of doing this?
>
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