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Btibert3
Btibert3

Reputation: 40176

Utility to manage multiple python scripts

I saw this post on Medium, and wondered how one might go about managing multiple python scripts.

How I Hacked Amazon's Wifi Button

This describes a system where you need to run one or more scripts continuously to catch and react to events in your network.

My question: Let's say I had multiple python scripts that I wanted to do run while I work on other things. What approaches are available to manage these scripts? I have to imagine there is a better way than having a large number of terminal windows running each script individually.

I am coming back to python, and have no formal training in computer programming, so any guidance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2551

Answers (4)

rokdd
rokdd

Reputation: 652

I just saw today the script server of bugy. Maybe it might be a solution for you or somebody else.

(I am just trying to find a tampermonkey script structure for python..)

Upvotes: 1

demented hedgehog
demented hedgehog

Reputation: 7548

Take a look at luigi (I've not used it).

https://github.com/spotify/luigi

These days (five years after the question was asked) a lot of people use docker compose. But that's a little heavy weight depending on what you want to do.

Upvotes: 0

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189749

Your system already runs a large number of background processes, with output to the system log or occasionally to a service-specific log file.

A common arrangement for quick and dirty deployments -- where you don't necessarily want to invest in making the scripts robust and well-behaved enough to run as proper services -- is to start the script inside screen or tmux. You can detach when you don't need to be looking at it, and can reattach at any time -- even from a remote login -- to view the output, or to troubleshoot.

Upvotes: 1

Sait
Sait

Reputation: 19825

Let's say I had multiple python scripts that I wanted to do run. What approaches are available to manage these scripts? I have to imagine there is a better way than having a large number of terminal windows running each script individually.

If you have several .py files in a directory that you want to run, without having a specific order, you can do:

import glob
pyFiles = glob.glob('path/*.py')
for pyFile in pyFiles:
    execfile(pyFile)

Upvotes: 1

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