darren kirby wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have a python script here which is just a wrapper for 2 or more system
> commands. I would estimate the program spends at least 95.5% of 'real' time
> running the system commands.
>
> I want to trap the [crtl-c] key combo and exit (somewhat) gracefully if the
> user decides to abort the program. I am using os.system for the system call,
> and I have wrapped the entire main loop in a try: except KeyboardInterrupt
> statement to try to attain these ends.
>
> As it is though, if the program is currently in the system command, only that
> system command is terminated, and the next loop of my program starts.
>
> Is there a way to make this work? ie: terminate the entire script? Will popen
> do this? I don't really want to use popen because all I need is for the
> system command to run, and check the exit status. Also, popen will pooch the
> output of the system commands (which I want to be printed to the console)
> because the system commands (faad, mpg123, and oggenc) have buffered output
> which won't properly be displayed if I simply print each line of the file
> object returned by popen.
From "man system":
"""
The system() function hands the argument string to the command inter-
preter sh(1). The calling process waits for the shell to finish
execut-
ing the command, ignoring SIGINT and SIGQUIT, and blocking SIGCHLD.
"""
So - I guess its popen2 or nothing :)
Regards,
Diez
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