Run a process and quit without waiting for it

Question

In Python under Windows: I want to run some code in a separate process. And I don\'t want the parent waiting for it to end. Tried this:

from multiprocessing impo         


        

Answer 1

You can declare the process as daemon with p.daemon = True. As http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#thread-objects says: "The significance of this flag is that the entire Python program exits when only daemon threads are left."

from multiprocessing import Process
from time import sleep

def count_sheeps(number):
    """Count all them sheeps."""
    for sheep in range(number):
        sleep(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = Process(target=count_sheeps, args=(5,))
    p.daemon = True
    p.start()
    print("Let's just forget about it and quit here and now.")
    exit()