subprocess.Popen

[Keith Dart]

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/





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