Running a secondary script in a new terminal

Question

When running a secondary python script:

• Is it possible to run a subprocess.Popen, or subprocess.call or even execfile in a n

Answer 1

If you're using tmux, you can specify which target you want the command to run in:

tmux send -t foo.0 ls ENTER

So, if you've created a tmux session foo.0, you should be able to do:

my_command = 'ls'
tmux_cmd = ['tmux', 'send', '-t', 'foo.0', my_command]
p = subprocess.Popen(tmux_cmd)

Answer 2

I guess you want something like

subprocess.call(['xterm','-e','python',script])

Good old xterm has almost no frills; on a Freedesktop system, maybe run xdg-terminal instead. On Debian, try x-terminal-emulator.

However, making your program require X11 is in most cases a mistake. A better solution is to run the subprocesses with output to a log file (or a socket, or whatever) and then separately run tail -f on those files (in a different terminal, or from a different server over ssh, or with output to a logger which supports rsyslog, or or or ...) which keeps your program simple and modular, free from "convenience" dependencies.

Answer 3

You can specify the tty of the terminal window you wish the command to be carried out in:

ls > /dev/ttys004

However, I would recommend going for the tmux approach for greater control (see my other answer).