How to run Python's subprocess and leave it in background

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00:00 How To Run Python'S Subprocess And Leave It In Background
00:42 Accepted Answer Score 14
01:15 Answer 2 Score 3
01:35 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 14

From the Popen.communicate documentation (emphasis mine):

Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait for process to terminate. The optional input argument should be a string to be sent to the child process, or None, if no data should be sent to the child.

If you don't want to wait for the process to terminate, then simply don't call communicate:

subprocess.Popen(full_command, close_fds=True)

ANSWER 2

Score 3

Might be another way of doing it, with the optional capability to inspect the subprocess output for a while, from github.com/hologram-io/hologram-python pppd.py file:

    self.proc = Popen(self._commands, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)

    # set stdout to non-blocking
    fd = self.proc.stdout.fileno()
    fl = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
    fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NONBLOCK)