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

[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 later 
versions do not.  Could you file an issue at bugs.python.org?

You can work around the problem by checking the exitcode attribute, e.g.

     while proc.exitcode is None:
         proc.join()

-- 
Richard