Add a 'timeout' argument to subprocess.Popen.

If the timeout expires before the subprocess exits, the wait method and the
communicate method will raise a subprocess.TimeoutExpired exception.  When used
with communicate, it is possible to catch the exception, kill the process, and
retry the communicate and receive any output written to stdout or stderr.
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Reid Kleckner 2011-03-14 12:02:10 -04:00
parent 4169826a00
commit 31aa7dd141
4 changed files with 367 additions and 98 deletions

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@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ PyInit__subprocess()
defint(d, "SW_HIDE", SW_HIDE);
defint(d, "INFINITE", INFINITE);
defint(d, "WAIT_OBJECT_0", WAIT_OBJECT_0);
defint(d, "WAIT_TIMEOUT", WAIT_TIMEOUT);
defint(d, "CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE", CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE);
defint(d, "CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP", CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP);