I have 2 scripts that I need to run at the same time. One script collects data and the other plots the data live.
On PC, I can simply open 2 IDLE shells and they will run concurrently but on Mac, that isn't possible.
I wrote the following bash file as suggested in this post (Run multiple python scripts concurrently):
python script1.py &
python script2.py &
But this only runs my scripts one at a time. Is there anyway on a mac that I can get both scripts running at the same time?
You can do it all from within python by using subprocess.Popen()
import subprocess
import sys
s1 = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, 'script1.py'])
s2 = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, 'script2.py'])
s1.wait()
s2.wait()
For my purposes, I was able to find a workaround that's slightly more tedious. I have 2 separate bash scripts now, each containing one of the lines from the above script I initially posted. Running both the bash scripts will run both my scripts simultaneously in different shells.
As a side note, does anybody know how I can do a similar thing, where I use a single bash script to call both of the new bash scripts?
That's not true, on OS X (Mac) works as expected.
#! /usr/bin/env python
import time
time.sleep(1)
print "script1.py"
#! /usr/bin/env python
print "script2.py"
set executable permission and run in shell
./script1.py &
./script2.py &
and the output will be
script2.py
script1.py
proving that both were run concurrently (as output from second script is displayed first)
