How to Start a (thread?) and Leave

gregpinero

Here's my situation, would you folks be so kind as to reccomend an
approach?

I have a small Python CGI script running as an intranet app. One of
the things the script needs to do is allow users to save invoices.
This is a process that takes about 60 seconds once the user submits
the order from the web app.

Ideally I'd like the CGI script to kick off a process to save the
invoice but not wait until it's finished to render the page. What's
the best way to do this, a thread, call a separate program from
os.system, something else?

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Greg

Mar 9 '07 #1

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abcd

probably a Thread.

Mar 9 '07 #2

gregpinero

On Mar 9, 3:25 pm, "abcd" <codecr...@gmail.comwrote:

probably a Thread.

But a thread leaves the script running until the thread exits, right?
So the webpage would just keep saying "loading" at the bottom I think.

-Greg

Mar 9 '07 #3

abcd

But a thread leaves the script running until the thread exits, right?

So the webpage would just keep saying "loading" at the bottom I think.

-Greg

give it a shot. if you spawn off a new thread your code should keep
executing while the thread does its work in the "background".

Mar 9 '07 #4

gregpinero

On Mar 9, 3:45 pm, "abcd" <codecr...@gmail.comwrote:

But a thread leaves the script running until the thread exits, right?
So the webpage would just keep saying "loading" at the bottom I think.

-Greg

give it a shot. if you spawn off a new thread your code should keep
executing while the thread does its work in the "background".

That's the thing though, I don't want my code to keep executing, I
want the script to exit/finish completely.

I'm leaning towards os.startfile right now. I also see some os.spawn
beasties in there but I don't understand those.

-Greg

Mar 9 '07 #5

Terry Reedy

<gr********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@h3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
| On Mar 9, 3:25 pm, "abcd" <codecr...@gmail.comwrote:
| probably a Thread.
|
|
| But a thread leaves the script running until the thread exits, right?
| So the webpage would just keep saying "loading" at the bottom I think.

Can you tell the page to auto-refresh itself every 15 seconds or so? I
have seen this as a user but don't know if it is special html code or
javascript or java or what.

tjr

Mar 9 '07 #6

gregpinero

On Mar 9, 4:57 pm, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.eduwrote:

<gregpin...@gmail.comwrote in message

news:11**********************@h3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

Can you tell the page to auto-refresh itself every 15 seconds or so? I
have seen this as a user but don't know if it is special html code or
javascript or java or what.

tjr

That's a good point. I'll check into that. If not it looks like I'll
be going with os.spawn.

Mar 9 '07 #7

gregpinero

On Mar 9, 4:57 pm, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.eduwrote:

<gregpin...@gmail.comwrote in message

news:11**********************@h3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
| On Mar 9, 3:25 pm, "abcd" <codecr...@gmail.comwrote:

Can you tell the page to auto-refresh itself every 15 seconds or so? I
have seen this as a user but don't know if it is special html code or
javascript or java or what.

tjr

This will sort of emulate the stop button, that might work:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread601992.html

-Greg

Mar 9 '07 #8

Aahz

In article <11**********************@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.c om>,
gr********@gmail.com <gr********@gmail.comwrote:

>
I'm leaning towards os.startfile right now. I also see some os.spawn
beasties in there but I don't understand those.

Try the subprocess module
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Mar 14 '07 #9

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