Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > The problem you are having is you are letting Popen do half the job > and doing the other half yourself.
Except that I never wanted Popen to do any thread management for me to begin with. Popen class has advertised itself as a replacement for os.popen, popen2, popen4, and etc., and IMHO it should leave the clean-up to the users, or at least leave it as an option. > Here is a way which works, done completely with Popen. Polling the > subprocesses is slightly less efficient than using os.wait() but does > work. In practice you want to do this anyway to see if your children > exceed their time limits etc. I think your polling way works; it seems there no other way around this problem other than polling or extending Popen class. thanks, Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
