I've got a recipe in the Python cookbook which adds async subprocess support[1], which can be wrapped to support handling IO to/from the subprocess until a time limit occurs.
- Josiah [1] - http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554 Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A frequent requirement seems to be to run a subprocess but give up if > it takes more than N seconds. I suppose you can hack this using the > poll() method and time.sleep(), but perhaps a more direct approach can > be added to the subprocess module? This should directly support > reading output / stderr until the time limit is up as well. Any > takers? > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jcarlson%40uci.edu _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
