wait() on Popen4 object from thread?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue May 30 09:51:09 EDT 2006


On 2006-05-30, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 03:01:54 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>>             watching = False
>
> 	You do realize that this is a LOCAL definition, and is NOT the same
> "watching" your later loop is waiting on...
>
>> while watching:
>>     time.sleep(0.1)

Oops, forgot the global declaration.  

However, the presence/absence of the global affect whether the
OSError happens or not.

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