Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I agree.  Does subprocess.TimeoutExpired sound good?

Yes.

> It won't be possible with the current implementation to put the partial output
> in the exception, because read blocks.

Fair enough :)

> I think call and check_call should clean up after themselves by
> killing the child processes they create, while communicate and wait should 
> leave
> that to the user.

It sounds good.

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