[LAD] Python assistance - threads (my favorite)

[Patrick Shirkey]

Hi,

In a bit of a time crunch. Can anyone tell me how to do this properly?

I would like to have a threaded timer to run "cmd" after 5 seconds.
However cmd is normally triggered like this:

os.system(cmd)

But there seems to be an issue with calling os.system(cmd) from
subprocess.popen.

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def do_popen(self, *args):
	subprocess.Popen(args[0], shell=True)


def other function

		cmd = 'spd-say -t female2 "' + audioText + '"'
		args = shlex.split(cmd)

	# Add 5 second delay for first view to allow existing speech processes to
finish
		print "do_speech: ",delay
		if delay:
			print "do_speech: delayed start"
			t = threading.Timer(5.0, self.do_popen(cmd))
			t.start()
		else :
			print "do_speech: immediate start"
			self.do_popen(cmd)

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FYI, it is for an accessibility wizard that Daniel and I have been working
on.



Cheers.

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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.

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