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I came back to my desk and counted 11 cmd windows instead of the 6 I expected. All running Python, all for the same project, all spawned by my own watchdog. This post is the diagnostic trail and the fix, in case anyone else is using tasklist /FI "WIN...

Apr 17 · 4 min read · python-bots.hashnode.dev  
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