13 Managing subprocesses
This chapter covers
- Running multiple subprocesses asynchronously
- Handling standard output from subprocesses
- Communicating with subprocesses using standard input
- Avoiding deadlocks and other pitfalls with subprocesses
Many applications will never need to leave the world of Python. We’ll call code from other Python libraries and modules or use multiprocessing or multithreading to run Python code concurrently. However, not everything we’ll want to interact with is written in Python. We may have an already built application that is written in C++, Go, Rust, or some other language that provides better runtime characteristics or is simply already there for us to use without reimplementing. We may also want to use OS provided ...
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