On Aug 28, 8:16 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 28, 7:51 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >> >> You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the > >> >> exit status of the process. > > >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems > >> > that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada." > >> > Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles. > > >> I believe the idea of this suggestion is for the outer script to > >> notice that the inner script terminated via Ctrl-C, and would then > >> immediately choose to terminate itself - thus avoiding the > >> whack-a-mole effect. > > >> ChrisA > > > Yes, but if I am not mistaken, that will require me to put a line or > > two after each os.system call. > > Er, just write a wrapper for os.system(), e.g.: > > def mysystem(cmd): > if os.system(cmd): > sys.exit() > > Also, you may want to switch to using the `subprocess` module instead. > > Cheers, > Chris
Sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks. --Russ P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
