Well, your program ran successfully. Perhaps WinRK is not well behaved. How can a process terminate in such a way that poll() can read it, but wait() won't?
Earl On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:49, Jeff Epler wrote: > hm, I guess SIGALRM doesn't exist on Windows. You can run the program > without the 'signal.signal' line or the 'signal.alarm' line, and you'll > be stuck with a hung Python if subprocess.Popen exhibits the bug. > > Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list