Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment: I didn't initially like the idea of __exit__ blocking on another process... but the zombie issue is real does make me think we should reconsider this and have it wait().
It is a backwards incompatible change if anyone has started using the Popen context manager to launch a long running subprocess that they did not want to wait for. That should be exceedingly rare. I say change the behavior to wait() in 3.3, 3.2.1 and 2.7.2. Keep the note in the documentation and turn it into something that stands out better like a note or a warning suggesting that people always call wait() after the Popen context manager exits if they need to be compatible with 2.7.1 or earlier. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12044> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
