On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I create child processes with subprocess.Popen(). > Then I either wait for them to finish or kill them. > Either way these processes end up as defunct until the parent process > completes: > $ ps e > 6851 pts/5 Z+ 1:29 [python] <defunct> > > This confuses another library as to whether the processes are > complete. > For now I detect which processes are defunct by parsing the output of > "ps". > What would you recommend? I am hoping there is a cleaner way.
That's a zombie process, it's finished but the parent hasn't wait()ed for it yet. http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.wait Once the process has ended, call that to get its return value and clean everything up. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list