Running bash script from within python

Making sleep.sh executable and adding shell=True to the parameter list (as suggested in previous answers) works ok. Depending on the search path, you may also need to add ./ or some other appropriate path. (Ie, change “sleep.sh” to “./sleep.sh”.) The shell=True parameter is not needed (under a Posix system like Linux) if the first line … Read more

When is the finalize() method called in Java?

In general it’s best not to rely on finalize() to do any cleaning up etc. According to the Javadoc (which it would be worth reading), it is: Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. As Joachim pointed out, this may never happen in the life … Read more