Call shell script from python script, exit without waiting for shell script to finish

[telduivel]

Can someone please help me with this:

I have a python script, that at some point calls a linux bash script (.sh). Starting the shell script is the last thing my python script needs to do, so I would like for the python script to exit once the call has been made, without waiting for the shell script to finish.

My question is:

how do I call a shell script from a python script?

and how do I do that such that control is tranferred to the shell script and the python script does not wait for the shell script to exit, but clean itself up?

[bartonc]

Can someone please help me with this:

I have a python script, that at some point calls a linux bash script (.sh). Starting the shell script is the last thing my python script needs to do, so I would like for the python script to exit once the call has been made, without waiting for the shell script to finish.

My question is:

how do I call a shell script from a python script?

and how do I do that such that control is tranferred to the shell script and the python script does not wait for the shell script to exit, but clean itself up?

See spawn* and P_NOWAIT in 14.1.5 Process Management of the 2.5 documentation.

[telduivel]

Thanks. That's what I was looking for.

[bartonc]

Thanks. That's what I was looking for.

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