How does Python manage units of work meant to run side-by-side? Get started with threads and subprocesses—two different ways of getting things done in your Python programs.

The Python documentation makes it clear that having shell=True in your call to subprocess.check_output (and other functions) is a potential security risk. If you're getting input from an unknown or ...

We’ve also updated our introduction to parallelism in Python, which now covers Python threads, subprocesses, the new free-threaded build in Python 3.13, and subinterpreters.

So, before I start trying to piece something together from random internet tutorials and the python user guide. TL;DR: What's a fairly simple way to spin of a sub-process (basically, another ...