Question

I want to launch this command from python in a background thread while keeping the main program thread running using envoy:

envoy.run('python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999')

This works but hangs, it doesn’t run threaded as it should do, so that I can’t kill it afterwards when I’m done. I tried to wrap it into a Thread:

class FileServerThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.process = None

    def run(self):
        self.process = envoy.run('python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999')        

    def kill(self):
        self.process.kill

but again, this doesn’t work because self.process is never assigned (since envoy.run doesn’t end and never returns).

Any help?

Answer 1

I am afraid that you can’t do it with run, but you can do it by connect.

import envoy
p = envoy.connect("python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999")
print "run here!"
p.kill()

however, after kill(), I found that the process became a zombie, p.block() will solve it.