On Mar 18, 11:17 am, "drstoka" <filip.popravi.stojmeno...@fer.hr> wrote: > Hello, > > I have to run a program as a child process inside my python program and > redirect it's output through a pipe to a parent program process. > So, I wrote this: > > pipe = Popen('example_program', shell=True, bufsize=0, stdout=PIPE).stdout > > and it works great. > > Now, in parent program I need to wait for a some time and if a child > (example_program) does not finish in that time, kill the child. > > How do I do that? Please help.
I have a module that does this and more, but it only works on Linux: http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/browse/trunk/rst2pdf/tests/execmgr.py For usage examples, you can just execute it. Also, see autotest.py in the same directory. Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list