Call a python subprocess as daemon and exit

Question

I\'m using a pair of python programs, one of which should call the second.

But this should be done in a way that the first program makes the second one a daemon (or

Answer 1

You can use subprocess.Popen for this:

import subprocess

cmd = ['/usr/bin/python', '/path/to/my/second/pythonscript.py']
subprocess.Popen(cmd)

You might want to redirect stdout and stderr somewhere, you can do that by passing stdout= to the Popen constructor.