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I want to execute a 3 separate bash commands on 3 separate core processors of a node of a supercomputer. I have a python script that sends a bash command via os.system to the command line, however it ...

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Possible Duplicate: How can I run an external command asynchronously from Python? So far my bit of code WILL download the file and then play it. What I would like to do is start downloading the ...

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So lets say that i created a while loop where the user inputs a name and it outputs his last name choice = input() if choice == "Mark": print("Zuckerberg") elif choice == "Sundar": print("...

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I am new to Python, and programming in general. I am working on a Chrome-based media center, and one thing I would like it to is open Chrome in full screen automatically. Here is what I have so far. (...

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I want to open .bat file and then continue the code but python is waiting for the end of file so I need to close the file and then it continue. But I want to open the file and continue with the code ...

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How do I call an external command within Python as if I had typed it in a shell or command prompt?

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Suppose I have code like this async def fetch_text() -> str: return "text " async def show_something(): something = await fetch_text() print(something) Which is fine. But then I want ...

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From the Wikipedia article on Polling Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. ...

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I need to run those three commands for profiling/code coverage reporting on Win32. vsperfcmd /start:coverage /output:run.coverage helloclass vsperfcmd /shutdown I can't run one command by one because ...

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Is there a way to start and stop a process from python? I'm talking about a continues process that I stop with ctrl+z when normally running. I want to start the process, wait for some time and then ...

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I'm writing a script in Python to ssh into a few computers (about ten) and have them start rendering 3d images from Blender. It works fine except the next computers's renders won't start until the ...

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I have created an app in a django project. This app has four models. I can add/modify/delete from admin site for all four models. But for one of the four models (say - ModelXYZ), I need to add a ...

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I have adapted the "async def _read_stream (stream, cb):" code described in How can I run an external command asynchronously from Python? by adding the update of a QTextEdit widget but the ...

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I have the following code: #!/usr/bin/env python import os os.system("wget -directory-prefix=myDir/1 URL1") os.system("wget -directory-prefix=myDir/2 URL2") os.system("wget -directory-prefix=...

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I want to pass the two variables to another python file, i dont want to start it as a sub process. I want the two processes to run apart as file1 has alot of more calculations to do and cannot wait ...