On 05/12/2012 17:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
"""
Check if child process has terminated. Returns None while the child is
still running,
any non-None value means that the child has terminated. In either case,
the return
value is also available from the instance's returncode attribute.
"""
Do you w
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:15:08 +1100
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Possibly because it is 4am here, I had to read this three times to
> understand it.
> > How is this instead?
> >
> > """
> > Check if child process has terminated. Returns None
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:15:08 +1100
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 06/12/12 03:08, Chris Withers wrote:
>
> > I'd like to change the docs for poll() to say:
> >
> > """
> > Check if child process has terminated.
> > If it has, the returncode attribute will be set and that value will be
> > returned.
On 06/12/12 03:08, Chris Withers wrote:
I'd like to change the docs for poll() to say:
"""
Check if child process has terminated.
If it has, the returncode attribute will be set and that value will be returned.
If it has not, None will be returned and the returncode attribute will remain
None.
On 05/12/2012 16:34, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
http://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.poll
The doc looks clear to me. poll() returns the returncode attribute which
is described thusly:
"A None value indicates that the process hasn’t terminated yet."
Therefore, I don't u
Le Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:08:46 +,
Chris Withers a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> Would anyone object to me making a change to the docs for 2.6, 2.7
> and 3.x to clarify the following:
>
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.poll
The doc looks clear to me. poll() returns t
Hi All,
Would anyone object to me making a change to the docs for 2.6, 2.7 and
3.x to clarify the following:
http://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.poll
A couple of my colleagues have ended up writing code like this:
proc = Popen(['some', 'thing'])
code = proc.poll
