I tried these two methods:

os.system("python test.py")

subprocess.Popen("python test.py", shell=True)

Both approaches need to wait until test.py finishes which blocks main process. I know "nohup" can do the job. Is there a Python way to launch test.py or any other shell scripts and leave it running in background?

Suppose test.py is like this:

for i in range(0, 1000000):
    print i

Both os.system() or subprocess.Popen() will block main program until 1000000 lines of output displayed. What I want is let test.py runs silently and display main program output only. Main program may quie while test.py is still running.

python background-process external-process
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