On Apr 7, 5:12 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 4/6/2011 7:58 PM, Nobody wrote: > > > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:20:22 -0700, Pierre GM wrote: > > >> I need to run a third-party binary from a python script and retrieve > >> its output (and its error messages). I use something like > >>>>> process = subprocess.Popen(options, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > >> stderr=subprocess.PIPE) > >>>>> (info_out, info_err) = process.communicate() > >> That works fine, except that the third-party binary in question doesn't > >> behave very nicely and tend to segfaults without returning any error. In > >> that case, `process.communicate` hangs for ever. > > I am not sure this will help you now, but.... > Victor Stinner has added a new module to Python 3.3 that tries to catch > segfaults and other fatal signals and produce a traceback before Python > disappears.
Unfortunately, I'm limited to Python 2.5.x for this project. But good to know, thanks... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
