Run multiple Python scripts from a single primary script

Summary

Instructions provided give scripting examples that demonstrate how to use Python's subprocess module to spawn a new process while providing inputs to and retrieving outputs from the secondary script.

The subprocess module is new in version 2.4 of Python and is provided as a standard module. This module intends to replace several other, older modules and functions, such as:

• os.system
• os.spawn*
• os.popen*
• popen2.*
• commands.*

*See the Python documentation for additional information about this module.

Procedure

import os
from subprocess import *

#run secondary script 1
p = Popen([r'C:\secondaryScript1.py', "ArcView"], shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
output = p.communicate()
print output[0]

#run secondary script 2
p = Popen([r'C:\secondaryScript2.py', "ArcEditor"], shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
output = p.communicate()
print output[0]

import sys, arcgisscripting
gp = arcgisscripting.create(9.3)
print gp.setproduct(sys.argv[1])

import sys, arcgisscripting
gp = arcgisscripting.create(9.3)
print gp.setproduct(sys.argv[1])