Run a Python script when Houdini crashing?

[Cuckon]

Hi guys, I wonder how to run a python script when houdini get crashing. So I can do some interesting stuff like environment logging or send "Mr.John's houdini crashed." to twitter.

[edward]

People have done that stuff in the past by wrapping Houdini itself and parsing for the crash output.

[Cuckon]

People have done that stuff in the past by wrapping Houdini itself and parsing for the crash output.

Thanks for the info but.. how could I catch that?

Edited August 27, 2013 by Cuckon

[lukeiamyourfather]

The term wrap means launch it from something else. If it were Python you could use the subprocess module to start Houdini and then do something depending on what Houdini spits back.

import subprocess
status = subprocess.check_output('houdini')
if 'something to look for' in status:
    ...
    ...
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Then do something based on whatever Houdini spit back (the status variable). Another way would be to setup a watchdog running all the time that looks for the Houdini process and have it do something if there's no Houdini running.

[Cuckon]

Thanks Luke Olson, I'll have a try~