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Use subprocess.Popen and time.sleep - chucky831 - Aug-11-2022

Good morning everyone, I am new to Python. I am developing a script to automate a program I need at work. What I need to do via Python is simply open a program that is in the system. To do this I used subprocess.Popen()
The problem is that my script should not continue until the program has fully opened. How can I go about stopping the script? I have tried using time.sleep() but using this function seems to then fail to use subprocess.terminate() to close the program. Can you help me with this? Thanks


RE: Use subprocess.Popen and time.sleep - deanhystad - Aug-11-2022

How do you know the process has "fully opened"? I don't know what it means to be "fully opened".


RE: Use subprocess.Popen and time.sleep - carecavoador - Aug-11-2022

Hi,

Post some of your code and the error messages you are getting, so we can try tu understand better how to help you.