subprocess 'wait' method causes .py program to hang.

[Earl Eiland]

I calling a Windows executable with PROC = subprocess.Popen('...'), and
blocking further python execution until the process terminates with
PROC.wait(). Occasionally, something unusual happens with the
subprocess, and it fails without terminating the process. When this
happens, my Python program doesn't detect the error condition, and
hangs.

What can I do about this?

Earl Eiland

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Isn't this the third time you've posted this question?

I calling a Windows executable with PROC = subprocess.Popen('...'), and

Forgive me, but is "subprocess.Popen()" something new in 2.4? I
can't find it in the modules available in 2.3.

blocking further python execution until the process terminates with
PROC.wait(). Occasionally, something unusual happens with the

By definition, don't the various "Popen" things imply at least
one pipe is created, for reading by default. But you seem not to have
any pipes in this call (or aren't using them, as it seems you are
getting back an object representing the entire subprocess state).
Perhaps the failure mode is not the termination of the subprocess, but a
state where it is waiting for a user response, which you do not provide.

Your wait() logic, with no access of pipe streams (visible)
seems similar to the use of

os.spawnl*()

followed by

os.waitpid()


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