//And there's no handle at all? There is one (check thread_nt.h) you have to "propagate" HANDLE to Pythom level. That's why, you have to change the interpreter. Do not forget, that thread is a build-in module.
//I wouldn't want to derive from Event since my goal would be to submit a patch to make subprocess.Popen.wait take an optional threading.Event to kill the process. And that's it? Right now aquire_lock is non-interruptable, as a result your Popen.wait is also non-interruptable, but if you pass derived event you will be able to handle more generic cases. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
