On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:39:37 -0800, Steven K. Wong wrote: > Suppose now all the prog1.poll() calls/loop are replaced by a single > prog1.wait(). Without the explicit prog1.stdout.close(), prog1.wait() > will not return, so the calling process still hangs. Because calling > prog1.wait() means that the calling process will naturally never read > prog1.stdout, I would argue that prog1.wait() should close the pipe > before actually waiting for prog1 to exit. Makes sense?
prog1.stdout might be being read by a different thread. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
