Question

All,

I have read several threads on how to run subprocesses in python and none of them seem to help me. It’s probably because I don’t know how to use them properly. I have several methods that I would like to run at the same time rather than in sequence and I thought that the subprocess module would do this for me.

def services():
     services = [method1(),
            method2(),
            method3(),  
            mrthod4(),
            method5()]
     return services

def runAll():
    import subprocess
    for i in services():
        proc = subprocess.call(i,shell=True)

The problem with this approach is that method1() starts and method2() doesn’t start until 1 finishes. I have tried several approaches including using subprocess.Popen[] in my services method with no luck. Can anyone lend me a hand on how to get methods 1-5 running at the same time?

Thanks,
Adam

Answer 1

In python 3.2.x the concurrent futures module makes this sort of things very easy.