Using module 'subprocess' with timeout

Question

Here\'s the Python code to run an arbitrary command returning its stdout data, or raise an exception on non-zero exit codes:

proc = subprocess.P         


        

Answer 1

Although I haven't looked at it extensively, this decorator I found at ActiveState seems to be quite useful for this sort of thing. Along with subprocess.Popen(..., close_fds=True), at least I'm ready for shell-scripting in Python.