[issue4216] subprocess.Popen hangs at communicate() when child exits
Gabriel Genellina
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Dec 16 00:25:20 CET 2008
Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> added the comment:
I think communicate() works as documented now: reads stdout/stderr
until EOF, *and* waits for subprocess to terminate.
You're asking for a different method, or perhaps an optional
parameter "return_when_died" to communicate, so it returns as soon as
the child process terminates (I don't like the parameter name...)
I think this is more a feature request than a crash, targeted to
2.7/3.1 - 2.4 only gets security fixes anyway.
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nosy: +gagenellina
type: crash -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 -Python 2.4
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