At Saturday 16/06/2007 02:24, you wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I am new to Python and I cannot > seem to figure this out. I searched for examples based > on your recommendation below but couldn't do it. I am > not familiar with subprocess and WaitForSingleObject. > And I want to do this in Windows. Could you please > write me the few lines I need to do this?
(Please keep posting on the list - other people may help too, and I don't read this email too often). Try this. (I had to use a private Popen attribute, _handle). import subprocess from win32event import WaitForSingleObject, WAIT_TIMEOUT from win32api import TerminateProcess def execute_and_wait(args, timeout=None): """Execute a command and wait until termination. If timeout elapses and still not finished, kill it. args: list containing program and arguments, or a single string. timeout: maximum time to wait, in ms, or None. """ p = subprocess.Popen(args) if timeout: ret = WaitForSingleObject(p._handle, timeout) if ret==WAIT_TIMEOUT: TerminateProcess(p._handle, 1) return None return p.wait() ret = execute_and_wait(["notepad", "c:\\python\\LICENSE.txt"], 5000) print "ret=",ret -- Gabriel Genellina __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list