threads and timeout -> running a shell command / want to guard against infinite loops

[Marcus Liddle]

Tim Ottinger wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:21:14 +1200, Marcus Liddle wrote:
> 
> 
>><newbie hat>
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>I'm trying to get a really simple python program to
>>  run a bash testing script and kill itself if its
>>  been running to long (ie infinite loop)
>>
>>create the thread object - test = TestThread()
>>run the command - test.do_command("infloop.bash")
>>if t.isAlive(): ...stop it
>>
>>any good ideas?
> 
> 
> Have you considered pexpect? 
> 

thank you for your advice.

I downloaded it (http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/
http://flow.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pexpect/)

and had play...

I think I require specific thread killing--the shell
  command I 'spawn' continues to run ...

I also had a look @ delegate.py from http://lfw.org/python/

after a very quick look last night, I think a similar problem
  ...my focus today will be on popen or another better way to
  control the execution.

cheers
Marcus
-- 
Senior Assistant [mailto:m.liddle at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]
Dept. of  Computer Science    University of Canterbury
Phone: +64 3  366-7001      ext: 7871      Office: 323
[  http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~marcus/index.html ]