How to start a background process in Python?

Question

I\'m trying to port a shell script to the much more readable python version. The original shell script starts several processes (utilities, monitors, etc.) in the background

Answer 1

You probably want the answer to "How to call an external command in Python".

The simplest approach is to use the os.system function, e.g.:

import os
os.system("some_command &")

Basically, whatever you pass to the system function will be executed the same as if you'd passed it to the shell in a script.