How to determine pid of process started via os.system

Question

I want to start several subprocesses with a programm, i.e. a module foo.py starts several instances of bar.py.

Since I sometimes have to te

Answer 1

You could use os.forkpty() instead, which, as result code, gives you the pid and fd for the pseudo terminal. More documentation here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.forkpty