[python-win32] polling with os.popen3

[TK Soh]

On 6/30/07, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> TK Soh wrote:
> > On 6/29/07, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> >> TK Soh wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to use os.popen3 to replace subprocess.Popen for python 2.3
> >> > compatibility. According to the document, os.Popen3 class is not
> >> > supported on Win32, so I can't poll() the pipe. I wonder how I can
> >> > check if the process open by os.popen3 is still running. Thanks in
> >> > advance for any advice or pointers.
> >>
> >> Surely, the MOST efficient way to do this has to be to download the
> >> Python 2.3 version of subprocess from
> >> http://effbot.org/downloads/#subprocess.
> >
> > Thanks for the advice, but this isn't exactly something I have in mind
> > though. I was thinking more of a solution 'native' to python 2.3.
>
> Why?  What's the point?  If subprocess is known to solve your problem,
> then why would you waste even half an hour of your time trying to
> re-engineer it?  It's not like this is some hack job by a high schooler
> -- that download is the same subprocess module that was accepted into
> Python 2.4, by the same author.

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