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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your reply. I will try the second solution.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Best.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Omid.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com">Guido Cioni</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, April 6, 2018 12:24 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:seyed.omid.nabavi@univie.ac.at">Seyed Omid Nabavi</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ncl-talk] subprocess is undefined</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BTW I've just checked.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>6.5 is going to be the next release. The stable one is 6.4. now. You could ask some of the devs to send you the subprocess part of the source code to include it into your source.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6. Apr 2018, at 12:22, Guido Cioni <<a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com">guidocioni@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Do you have NCL 6.5.? This function is only available there. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You can still use the "old" method that exploits Python. It works pretty well and you don't necessarily need to have a NCL "driver" script.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That's how I've modified task_parallelism_2.py<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif'>def launchTask(script):</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif'> task = subprocess.Popen("ncl " + script, shell=True, executable="/bin/bash") </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif'> return task</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>and then simply launch it from bash as <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif'>python task_parallelism.py plot_pres_t2m_winds10m.ncl plot_gph_t_850.ncl</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>BTW to the devs, the link <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/subprocess.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/subprocess.shtml</a> is broken. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6. Apr 2018, at 12:01, Seyed Omid Nabavi <<a href="mailto:seyed.omid.nabavi@univie.ac.at">seyed.omid.nabavi@univie.ac.at</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear NCL users,<br>I am trying to build a parallel task using<br><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/task_parallelism.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/task_parallelism.shtml</a>. But I<br>receive the following error.<br>fatal: Undefined identifier: (subprocess) is undefined, can't continue.<br>Should I load any library for that?<br>Best regards,<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Seyed Omid Nabavi;<br>University of Vienna,<br>Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy<br>UZA II Althanstrasse 14 A-1010 Vienna<br>_______________________________________________<br>ncl-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a><br>List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br>Guido Cioni<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><a href="http://guidocioni.altervista/">http://guidocioni.altervista</a>.org<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Guido Cioni<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://guidocioni.altervista">http://guidocioni.altervista</a>.org<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>