Re: [Python-Dev] slightly misleading Popen.poll() docs

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Withers
On 05/12/2012 17:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: """ Check if child process has terminated. Returns None while the child is still running, any non-None value means that the child has terminated. In either case, the return value is also available from the instance's returncode attribute. """ Do you w

[Python-Dev] hg.python.org Mercurial upgrade

2013-01-22 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, I've upgraded the Mercurial version on hg.python.org. If there any problems, don't hesitate to post here. (apart from the connectivity problems we seem to have from time to time and which shouldn't be related) Regards Antoine. ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistent behaviour of methods waiting for child process

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Oudkerk
On 22/01/2013 12:16pm, Marcin Szewczyk wrote: The 1) case is very impractical. Is there any movement towards standardization of those 3? Am I missing something and there is a way to get more information from Process.join()? With Process.join(), it looks like version 2.6 raises OSError but lat

[Python-Dev] Inconsistent behaviour of methods waiting for child process

2013-01-22 Thread Marcin Szewczyk
Hi, I've previously asked about this issue on Python General but there was no response and I hope this post qualifies for Python Devel. I've done some experiments with: 1) multiprocessing.Process.join() 2) os.waitpid() 3) subprocess.Popen.wait() These three methods behave completely different wh