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Re: Killing threads, and os.system()

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Date	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:18:28 +0100
From	Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com>
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Le 31/01/2012 17:04, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :

> 	Of course, if that thread is stuck waiting for a call to os.system()
> to complete, then it can not do anything...
>
> 	os.system()	is a rather limited, restrictive, call -- best used for
> quick one-of operations. If running Python 2.6+, I'd recommend
> converting from os.system() to subprocess.Popen(). .Popen() objects now
> have .terminate() and .kill() methods.

Ok, I'll try that Popen. Indeed I think that my threads are stuck 
waiting os.system to complete.

Thanks
Laurent

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Killing threads, and os.system() Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 08:45 +0100
  Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-01-31 11:04 -0500
    Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 18:18 +0100
      Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-01-31 14:34 -0500
    Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 18:18 +0100
    Re: Killing threads, and os.system() John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-02-03 00:14 -0800
      Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-03 09:25 +0000
      Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-03 11:20 -0500
      Re: Killing threads, and os.system() Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-02-03 15:42 -0800

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