Python won't exit when called with absolute path from cron or subshell

Question

I have some python scripts that run via cron, and they no longer exit correctly when the script is called with an absolute path. They will hang until the process is termina

Answer 1

Instead of:

/usr/bin/python /var/home/wotstats/test/test.py

use:

cd /var/home/wotstats/test/
/usr/bin/python test.py