Terminating python script easily

Hi, I have a python build script that calls various commands, some using os.system(). Often, if I want to terminate the script prematurely, I press ctrl-c, but I have to do this many times before I can kill the script for good. I was wondering is there a way that I define a signal handler and kil

testing C code with python

Hi, A simple question - Is it common/good practice to test C code using Python? For example one could wrap individual C functions, and test each of them using python, maybe not for low-level things but at least for algorithmic correctness. Anyone effectively doing this as common practice? Thanks,

how do I pipe two processes?

Hi, I want to pipe output of process A to B, and read output of B from python. On Unix if I do the following: child_out, child_in = popen2("program_a | program_b") line = child_out.readline() I get "IOError: bad file descriptor" from Python, and broken pipe error from program_b. How do I do this

Re: Terminating python script easily

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Balban wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a python build script that calls various commands, some using >> os.system(). >> >> Often, if I want to terminate the script prematurely, I press ctrl-