I have a command in terminal which doesn’t finish. I mean it’s not like “ls” which after executing finishes. I am using this command in my python code, so I need it to finish ! because I have to proceed. Any idea how to do it?
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I have a command in terminal which doesn’t finish. I mean it’s not like “ls” which after executing finishes. I am using this command in my python code, so I need it to finish ! because I have to proceed. Any idea how to do it?
It looks like you can just use Python’s
Popento create a child process and then not wait for the child process to completehttp://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html