[Twisted-Python] Suppressing terminal window from reactor.spawnProcess?
Steve Freitas
sflist at ihonk.com
Fri Feb 2 18:57:46 MST 2007
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:07 -0600, Eric Mangold wrote:
> It's better to control the parent process. You can easily use
> CreateProcess yourself, and use OpenProcess followed by TerminateProcess
> to kill it. All these functions are in pywin32 which you already have if
> you're using spawnProcess.
>
> You *can*, however, close the console after it's created. Just call
> FreeConsole(). This will have the effect of flashing a console window on
> the screen for a split second. Depending on how you run your service it
> may not have access to the desktop, and I'm not sure if this will cause
> problems with launching processes that try to create console windows.
>
> Alternatively, since this is python, and you don't care about I/O, you can
> use pythonw.exe instead.
Thanks! It did. I'm not launching a Python process, but I mistakenly
assumed that Python's built in process launching functions were
blocking, so I didn't bother looking any further when I had
spawnProcess() staring at me.
I decided to use subprocess.Popen(shell=False), and that did it.
However, I've just determined that I need access to stderr after all --
apparently I need to be apprised of errors from stderr during the
process's execution -- so I'm hoping I can figure out a way to do that
within what I'm using now. Time to get some experience creating
file-like objects, I suppose.
Steve
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