To get a module included in the standard library you need to have it out for about a year, have the community consider it best-of-breed, and write a PEP passed through python-ideas.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:40, Charles Waldman<c...@hep.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > Here's a module "timed_command" I wrote a while ago and is generally > useful and might be a good addition to the standard library. It is > like commands.getstatusoutput but lets you run a command with an > optional timeout. Useful for systems programming where a sub-process > might hang. Only works on POSIX, but could perhaps be modified to run > on other platforms (I don't have the knowledge of Windows to do this). > If you would like to add this to the library, I relinquish all rights > to it. > > Here's a link to the source repository: > > http://repo.mwt2.org/viewvc/Python/timed_command.py?view=markup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ 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
