subprocess.Popen

[Keith Dart]

Keith Dart wrote:
> Michele Simionato wrote:
> 
>> I was looking at Python 2.4 subprocess.Popen. Quite nice and handy, but I
>> wonder why a "kill" method is missing. I am just adding it via 
>> subclassing,
>>
>> class Popen(subprocess.Popen):
>>     def kill(self, signal = SIGTERM):
>>         os.kill(self.pid, signal)
>>
>> but I would prefer to have it in the standard Popen class. I am surprised
>> it is not there. Any comments?
> 
> 
> Probably because it is not entirely portable. If you want a more 
> complete, but Posix-only (at least Linux and FreeBSD), process 
> management and spawning then you can use the proctools module in pyNMS.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pynms/
> 

I forgot to mention that the pyNMS package also has a module called 
"expect" that works like the Expect language. You can interact and 
control interactive processes and external CLIs with it.




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