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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:44:58 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Avoid race condition with Popen.send_signal
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On 02Jan2012 20:31, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
| > I think that catching the exception is probably the most Pythonic way.
| 
| It's the only correct way.

Indeed, but be precise - chek that it _is_ error 3, or more portably,
errno.ESRCH. POSIX probably mandates that that is a 3, but the symbol
should track the local system if it differs. Example:

  import errno
  ...
  try:
    ...signal...
  except OSError, e:
    if e.errno == errno.ESRCH:
      pass      # or maybe an info log message
    else:
      raise     # something else wrong - raise exception anyway

Cheers,
-- 
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