Question

With Ruby, a fork block can be used to express that

Statements in this block are only executed in the child process and will be skipped over by the parent process.

Is there something similar in Python?

Answer 1

I don’t know Python, but I think you do it just like you do it in C, by checking the return value of fork():

child_pid = os.fork()
if child_pid == 0:
    print "This is the child."
    sys.exit(0)
print "This is the parent."