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Executing multiple subprocesses and waiting

JB jbravado at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 21:00:51 EST 2011 
One of my python scripts that takes a bunch of inputs from a tKinter
gui, generates a set of command line stings, and then threads them off
to subprocess for calls to other programs like Nuke and our render
farm has recently started randomly crashing pythonw.exe.

I'm taking a look at my threading setup and attempting to clean it up.
I was wondering what a smart way of doing what I describe is? Take a
list of strings containing command line calls to other programs,
process them one at a time (waiting for the previous one to complete
before starting the next) and then finishing elegantly. Currently, the
gui passes them all to a "workerThread" which loops through each
string, sending it to a "processThread" which makes a call to
subprocess to execute it.

This has worked fine for over a year so the recent crashing is
mystifying me. I'm wondering if it's increased network stress (we've
grown) or something similar?

Any thoughts and suggestions on waiting for threads to complete are
appreciated.
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