<div dir="ltr">Hi Tony,<div><br></div><div>There's nothing in pytest that prevents you to spawn subprocesses. Posting your code and the error or problem you are having will probably help (specially if the code is small and reproduces the issue).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bruno</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:51 PM Tony Cappellini <<a href="mailto:cappy2112@gmail.com">cappy2112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I've spent a lot of time trying to figure this out, so I thought I'd ask those who have more experience with Pytest.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running Python 2.7.14 on Windows 7 Pro (64-bit), pytest 3.5.0</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any reason a test running under pytest shouldn't spawn a subprocess, or</div><div>take special care when spawning it?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not able to get a subprocess to launch using subprocess.Popen() inside of a pytest test, but I can run spawn the subrpocess outside of pytest.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if I can attach my code to this post.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll provide more details and the code, after the reply.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div></div>
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