how to kill (or avoid) zombie processes with subprocess module

Question

When I kick off a python script from within another python script using the subprocess module, a zombie process is created when the subprocess \"completes\". I am unable to

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by no_wait(). Do you mean you can't block waiting for child processes to finish? Assuming so, I think this will do what you want:

os.wait3(os.WNOHANG)