On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jaroslav Dobrek
<jaroslav.dob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to execute shell commands, but only if their execution
> time is not longer than n seconds. Like so:
>
> monitor(os.system("do_something"), 5)
>
> I.e. the command do_somthing should be executed by the operating
> system. If the call has not finished after 5 seconds, the process
> should be killed.
>
> How could this be done?
>
> Jaroslav* Use subprocess instead of os.system. subprocess doesn't block * run the process in another thread and have that thread do nothing until the process is finished or a terminate flag gets set. If the flag gets set, call terminate() on the Popen object. * have the main thread call thread.join(5) on your new thread. After that, set the terminate flag. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
