import ServerClass import subprocess while 1: server = ServerClass.ServerHandler(34600) tried = server.openSocket() test = server.receiveData(2) if test == 'START APP': print 'start' subprocess.Popen(args=['gnome-terminal','--command= python /home/gsmselftest/gsm-selftest/For\ Weekly\ Test/tricode/gsmselftest-website2.py']) print server.closeConnection() del server