[Zope] external process

Casey Duncan casey@zope.com
14 Jun 2002 14:21:44 -0400


Generally, to use an external process to do something and return the
result to zope, you would use popen and friends.

What exactly are you trying to do?

-Casey

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 13:46, Micah Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I can't seem to get Zope to initiate an external process.  I've
> tried to use External Methods and the Python os library functions spawnv()
> and fork() with execv()/system().  In each case the functions run and return
> but nothing else happens.  Running the same function calls from Python
> outside of Zope works fine.  Anyone have any ideas why it wont work or how
> to get it to work? 
> 
> 	Micah