Is it possible to renice a subprocess ?

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I know about os.nice() it works perfect for parent process, but I need to do renice of my child subprocesses. I found way to do this, but it seems to be not very handy and too excessive:

os.system("renice -n %d %d" % ( new_nice, suprocess.pid ) )

And it isn't return resulting nice level after renicing.

Is there more clean way to renice subprocesses in python?

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