Thanks, that may be just what I'm looking for. -ryan
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Chris Down <ch...@chrisdown.name> wrote: > On 2013-08-05 12:17, Ryan Waples wrote: > > Currently I am calling each analysis program one at a time with > > subprocess.call(). This is working without a hitch, but as each analysis > > can take a while to run, I want to try to speed things up. I realize I > can > > start three different python sessions to do this, but that just begs the > > question how to do that from python? > > subprocess.Popen does not block unless you explicitly tell it to (by using > communicate()). Perhaps that's what you want. > > >>> import subprocess > >>> x = subprocess.Popen([ "sleep", "60" ]) > >>> y = subprocess.Popen([ "sleep", "60" ]) > >>> x.pid > 3035 > >>> y.pid > 3036 >
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