Detect hung apps spawned from python

[David Stubbs]

Sorry,

I was a bit vague. I do use os.listdir() to build up the list. I meant that
I execute a script from within each of these directories with the
os.system() call. As the call to os.system() is blocking, I'd like some way
to detect if the spawned process hangs, and if so recover control.

Does anyone know an easy way of traversing a list of python scripts,
executing each one in turn, checking the return value, and also safeguarding
against scripts that never return control back to the host script?

I'm just trying to create a simple test harness, and so far have it looking
quite good except that if one of the individual tests crash then my test
harness sits patiently waiting forever, which obviously isn't good as it
then requires user intervention.

Thank again,
Dave.

"Just" <just at xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:just-8F68BC.16435002062003 at news1.news.xs4all.nl...
> In article <3edb494b$0$12997$afc38c87 at news.easynet.co.uk>,
>  "David Stubbs" <david at snsys.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a python app that builds a list of all subdirectories from the
> > current directory, and then in turn runs a 'test.py' script from within
each
> > of these directories. I currently do this using os.system().
>
> Sorry for not answering your question, but have you considered
> os.listdir() and os.path.isfile()?
>
> Just