Richard Oudkerk added the comment: The way to deal with this is to pass the write end of the pipe to the child process so that the child process can explicitly close it -- there is no reason to expect garbage collection to make this happen automatically.
You don't explain the difference between functional.py and nonfunctional.py. The most obvious thing is the fact that nonfunctional.py seems to have messed up indentation: you have a while loop in the class declaration instead of in the run() method. ---------- nosy: +sbt _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18120> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com