jas wrote: > I am currently using subprocess to execute a command. Then I read from > it's stdout...however, this is hanging on a read..waiting for more > bytes. So what I would like is to timeout...and select.selec() seems > to be what I need. Except I don't have a socket, i have stdout. > > Any suggestions on how to do a timeout like select.select with stdout?
I am not too familiar with any asynchronous I/O facilities in Python beyond select, so in your situation I would use the threading module, with the blocking read in one thread and your time-out in the main thread. You could perhaps use an Event object here, which has the time-out functionality for you. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
