[issue15804] Feature request, implicit "except : pass"

2012-08-28 Thread gd2shoe
New submission from gd2shoe: I'm constantly finding myself writing itty-bitty try blocks like such: process stuff try : someSubProcess.kill() except : pass process stuff I realize this isn't a rigorous use of except, but it's good enough for a vast majority of what I need it

[issue1396825] subprocess: wait for a period of time

2008-08-22 Thread gd2shoe
gd2shoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This is just common sense. I'm trying to avoid a poll() busy-wait section of code. I'll figure it out, but it would be much, much easier if wait accepted a number of seconds, and returned None if the process was still going